How To Use moneylender In A Sentence
- Most of the people we were lending to had, at one time or another, been indebted to illegal moneylenders, who charge interest rates of 300 percent per annum.
- In theory the sale of a squire's land to a moneylender is a minor and exceptional necessity. A Miscellany of Men
- At this stage in history, the merchant class, desperate for money to finance their adventures, struggled with the monopoly of the moneylenders and overcame it.
- She was also a moneylender who collected sizeable interest with little or no collateral.
- Given the sums that they had borrowed from shopkeepers and moneylenders at high interest rates, tenants were unable to satisfy both their creditors in the towns and their landlords.
- Over three million households are now reliant on moneylenders, many of whom routinely charge over 150 percent interest for cash loans.
- Dante doesn't say so, but he leaves us free to speculate that moneylenders continue to practice their trade in hell, lending money at interest to the damned.
- As moneylenders, goldsmiths conducted regular business with aristocrats, and gentlemen, and, increasingly, the agents of the Crown.
- I noticed they were experiencing the same things as many Papuans - they were in debt to rapacious moneylenders and held to ransom by unaccountable officials.
- The doorstep moneylender today reported 2002 pre-tax profits of £182m, up 7%, to continue its great run of form.
