1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury ix. 85 As money-lending, and not horse-dealing, was, what you lawyers call, the principal case, he drops the horse business.

1848 J. S. Mill Polit. Econ. III. xxiii. §2 ii. 181 Money-lending, as an employment..cannot..be carried on except by persons who in addition to their own capital, can lend their credit.

1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking i. 8 Money-lending was carried on very extensively after the return from captivity.

1900 Pilot 30 June 544/1 The Companies Bill and the Money-Lending Bill..had the common object of putting down fraud and victimisation.

1990 B. Burrough & J. Helyar Barbarians at Gate vi. 160 The upfront fees alone—for advising and money lending and a ‘success fee’, maybe $200 million in all—would be a gigantic boost to Shearson's flagging earnings.

1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 4 That canting, couzening, money-lending, match-making, pawnbroking ——.

1859 A. H. Clough tr. Plutarch Lives IV. 458 The wealthy, money-lending people..beheld it with a heavy heart.

1904 R. Shuddick How to arrange with your Creditors 35 The..simplest way of checking the rapacity of the money-lending shark.

1988 A. Wilson Finding Voice (BNC) By the 1920s Manupur, like so many villages in Punjab, was dominated by the moneylending class who were Brahmins by caste.