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Definition of usurer in English: usurernoun ˈjuːʒ(ə)rəˈjuʒərər A person who lends money at unreasonably high rates of interest. Example sentencesExamples - Where the actual producers fall prey to usurers and merchants, because of their lack of market power, they are reduced to a subsistence existence and forced to part with the surplus product.
- Blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers are punished here by the blistering heat.
- The merchant boasted to him: ‘After the war between France and Germany I was a usurer and with extorting, cozening, forfeiting and tricks belonging under brokery, I filled the gaols with bankrupts in a year.’
- The biblical parable of the talents was the central interpretative puzzle in this regard since it appears to advocate usury and, worse still, the careful preserver loses all and the usurer gains more.
- He governed Sardinia, expelling usurers and restricting the demands made on the Sardinians for the upkeep of himself and his staff.
- Usurers haggle in the village square.
- In the West the taking of usury was prohibited to both the clergy and the laity in the ninth century, and the sanctions against usurers were intensified by a series of conciliar decrees between 1179 and 1311.
- At the end of ten years everything was paid off, everything, the usurer's charges and the accumulation of superimposed interest.
- The nation remains at the mercy of banking usurers.
- Unfortunately, Antonio's money is currently tied up in shipping ventures, but because he desperately wants to help his dear friend, he goes to the usurer Shylock to borrow the funds.
- All evils, they repeat again and again, are caused by the erroneous teachings of the ‘dismal science’ of economics and the ‘credit monopoly’ of the bankers and usurers.
- If you oblige many men to be money-lenders, some will assuredly be usurers.
Synonyms extortionate moneylender, payday lender Irish gombeen man informal loan shark offensive Shylock
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Old French usure, from Latin usura (see usury). Definition of usurer in US English: usurernounˈjuʒərərˈyo͞oZHərər A person who lends money at unreasonably high rates of interest. Example sentencesExamples - He governed Sardinia, expelling usurers and restricting the demands made on the Sardinians for the upkeep of himself and his staff.
- The merchant boasted to him: ‘After the war between France and Germany I was a usurer and with extorting, cozening, forfeiting and tricks belonging under brokery, I filled the gaols with bankrupts in a year.’
- If you oblige many men to be money-lenders, some will assuredly be usurers.
- In the West the taking of usury was prohibited to both the clergy and the laity in the ninth century, and the sanctions against usurers were intensified by a series of conciliar decrees between 1179 and 1311.
- All evils, they repeat again and again, are caused by the erroneous teachings of the ‘dismal science’ of economics and the ‘credit monopoly’ of the bankers and usurers.
- Where the actual producers fall prey to usurers and merchants, because of their lack of market power, they are reduced to a subsistence existence and forced to part with the surplus product.
- The biblical parable of the talents was the central interpretative puzzle in this regard since it appears to advocate usury and, worse still, the careful preserver loses all and the usurer gains more.
- Usurers haggle in the village square.
- Unfortunately, Antonio's money is currently tied up in shipping ventures, but because he desperately wants to help his dear friend, he goes to the usurer Shylock to borrow the funds.
- Blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers are punished here by the blistering heat.
- The nation remains at the mercy of banking usurers.
- At the end of ten years everything was paid off, everything, the usurer's charges and the accumulation of superimposed interest.
Synonyms extortionate moneylender, payday lender
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Old French usure, from Latin usura (see usury). |