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bill discounter

bill discounter noun: a moneylender.

Noun

bill discounter (plural bill discounters)

  1. (archaic) A moneylender.
    • Nor did he trouble his borrowers with abstract calculations of figures, or references to ready-reckoners; his simple rule of interest being all comprised in the one golden sentence, ‘two-pence for every half-penny,’ which greatly simplified the accounts, and which, as a familiar precept, more...1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC

Forms of bill discounter

pluralbill discounters
alternative formbill-discounter

Questions about bill discounter

What does bill discounter mean?
Bill discounter means a moneylender.
What part of speech is bill discounter?
Bill discounter is a noun.
What is the plural of bill discounter?
The plural of bill discounter is bill discounters.

Words near bill discounter in the dictionary

  1. bill and coo
  2. bill bird
  3. bill birds
  4. Bill Cosby sweater
  5. Bill Cosby sweaters
  6. bill discounter
  7. bill discounters
  8. Bill Gates' flower flies
  9. Bill Gates' flower fly
  10. bill hook
  11. bill hooks

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