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moneylender

Meaning of "moneylender" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF MONEYLENDER

ˈmʌnɪˌlɛndə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONEYLENDER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Moneylender is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MONEYLENDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Moneylender

A moneylender is a person or group who offers small personal loans at high rates of interest. The high interest rates charged by them is justified in many cases by the risk involved. They play an active role in lending to people with less access to banking activities, such as the unbanked or underbanked or in situations where borrowers do not have good credit history. They sometimes lend to people like gamblers and compulsive shoppers who often get into debt. Many countries have laws in place that requires money lenders to be registered and limits on the interest rates that may be charged. For example in India licensed money lenders are governed by Money Lenders Acts of respective states.

Definition of moneylender in the English dictionary

The definition of moneylender in the dictionary is a person who lends money at interest as a living.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONEYLENDER

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONEYLENDER

money to burn · money wages · money-grubber · money-grubbing · money-loser · money-making · money-purchase · money-spinner · moneybags · moneybox · moneychanger · moneyed · moneyer · moneylending · moneyless · moneymaker · moneyman · moneymen · moneyspinning · moneywort

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONEYLENDER

Alexander · ascender · calender · contender · descender · ender · engender · gender-bender · goaltender · hellbender · lavender · mender · mortgage lender · public defender · repeat offender · sender · sex offender · spender · suspender · vender · weekender

Synonyms and antonyms of moneylender in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «moneylender» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MONEYLENDER

Find out the translation of moneylender to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of moneylender from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «moneylender» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

债主
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

prestamista
570 millions of speakers
en

English

moneylender
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

साहूकार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المرابي
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

ростовщик
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

agiota
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

জীবক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

prêteur
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pembeli wang
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Geldverleiher
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

金貸し
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

돈놀이꾼
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Dhuwit dhuwit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người cho vay ăn lời
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வட்டிக்கடைக்காரரான
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

सावकार
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tefeci
70 millions of speakers
it

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finanziatore
65 millions of speakers
pl

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lichwiarz
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

лихвар
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

cămătar
30 millions of speakers
el

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τοκογλύφος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geldskieter
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

utlåningsinstitut
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

moneylender
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of moneylender

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MONEYLENDER»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of moneylender
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about moneylender

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONEYLENDER»

Discover the use of moneylender in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to moneylender and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Moneylender's Daughter
In 1637, Adam Windjammer, now sixteen years old, confronts danger in the New World as he tries to restore his family's fortune, while fourteen-year-old Jade Van Helson struggles in Amsterdam against her moneylender father's decree that she ...
V. A. Richardson, 2006
2
The Moneylender of Toulouse: A Fools' Guild Mystery
Theophilos the jester travels to Toulouse to convince the old bishop to retire, but finds himself investigating the death of a moneylender to whom the bishop owed money.
Alan Gordon, 2008
3
Moneylending and Low Income Families
The significance of family and friends increases when the basis on which respondents chose their moneylender is examined (Table 5.2). Personal recommendation by either a friend or a family member was the most common guide used to ...
Mary E. Daly, Jim Walsh, 1988
4
Mexico Reading the United States
lender's employees get Quino drunk—on their boss's orders—and try to steal the pearl, though they fail. But the moneylender will have another opportunity: Quino and his wife come to his shop to sell the pearl. When the man sees the treasure, ...
Linda Egan, Mary K. Long, 2009
5
Meeting the credit needs of low-income groups: credit unions ...
Close relationship with the moneylender: Both key witnesses from the moneylending companies stressed that the reason for their success is the close relationship built up over many years with customers and their families. The credit union ...
Noreen Byrne, Olive McCarthy, Michael Ward, 2005
6
Recursive Macroeconomic Theory
Following a tradition started by Green (1987), we assume that a "moneylender" or "planner" is the only person in the village who has access to a risk-free loan market outside the village. The moneylender can borrow or lend at the constant risk- ...
Lars Ljungqvist, Thomas J. Sargent, 2004
7
Folklore, Public Sphere, and Civil Society
He goes to the village moneylender tries to borrow a few hundred rupees for interest. The moneylender wants something which can be mortgaged. The poor man has nothing to mortgage. The moneylender suggests that he could mortgage his ...
M. D. Muthukumaraswamy, Molly Kaushal, 2004
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Financial Inclusion of the Marginalised: Street Vendors in ...
The hawker is naive enough not to understand these calculations and he believes the moneylender. As a result he can never repay the loan as the amount is too high and it keeps mounting. We can take the example of one hawker who had ...
Sharit K. Bhowmik, Debdulal Saha, 2013
9
The Economics of Microfinance
By March 2007, 2.9 million self-help groups were providing services to 41 million members (NABARD 2007).21 2.6.1 Employing Well-Informed Local Agents Consider a bank that hires a moneylender as an agent.22 When lending his own  ...
Beatriz Armendáriz, Jonathan Morduch, 2010
10
Rural Credit in Disarray: Moneylender's Credit Or ...
This book presents a true picture of rural Assam where people are logged down deep in indebtedness, rural poverty, illiteracy and ignorance.
Gautam Purkayastha, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONEYLENDER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term moneylender is used in the context of the following news items.
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Man arrested for loanshark harassment involving fire
Under the Moneylenders Act, first-time offenders found guilty of acting on behalf of an unlicensed moneylender, committing or attempting to ... «AsiaOne, Jul 15»
2
What's on where around Luton: listings, July 22 edition
With money tied up in business ventures that depend on ships at sea, Antonio decides to borrow money from Shylock, a moneylender. Failure ... «Dunstable Today, Jul 15»
3
Shakespeare classic shown live in Cumbrian cinemas
Antonio is left with no other option but to borrow the funds from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender renowned for his high interest rates. Shylock ... «Cumbria Live, Jul 15»
4
Moneylender arrested
The Central Crime Branch (CCB) police on Monday arrested a man for lending money illegally at high rates of interest. Police said Balu, a ... «Deccan Herald, Jul 15»
5
The cyclone came and went. The moneylenders, however, keep …
“The government has a long list of protocols to follow and questions to ask,” said Viswanath Kulluri, a private moneylender, referring to banks, ... «WCAI, Jul 15»
6
Farmers urged not to resort to suicide
“One must understand that not every private moneylender is inhuman and harasses farmers for repayment. Moreover, in rural areas, these ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
7
Now, lodge complaints against private moneylenders by calling …
While one moneylender was charging a whopping 10 per cent interest every month, another had kept a treasure trove of documents as surety ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
8
Employee sold wine firm's goods illegally for $7m
... cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of a property, assisting an unlicensed moneylender, and using the benefits from criminal conduct. «The Straits Times, Jul 15»
9
Bond papers, cheques, property documents seized from …
MYSURU: City police have raided a house belonging a moneylender in north east Mysuru and seized documents, cheques, promissory notes, ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»
10
Decoding Karnataka debt trap: Rise of a new breed of private …
This demand has created a new, private moneylender: the government servant living in the village, who earns a fixed salary and has a much ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
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