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money-lender

money-lender is the alternative form of moneylender.

Meaning of moneylender

Noun

moneylender (plural moneylenders)

  1. A person who lends money and charges interest, especially one who is not part of the official financial industry.
    • Banchiere, a banker or Lombard, or a money lender.1598, J. Florio, Worlde of Wordes
    Synonyms:
    lender, usurer, moneyer

Forms of money-lender

pluralmoney-lenders

Questions about money-lender

What is money-lender the alternative form of?
Money-lender is the alternative form of moneylender.

Words near money-lender in the dictionary

  1. money-grubbing
  2. money-guard
  3. money-guards
  4. money-hungry
  5. money-in-both-pockets
  6. money-lender
  7. money-lenders
  8. money-loser
  9. money-losers
  10. money-love
  11. Money-Mae

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Adapted from Wiktionary: money-lender (page history and authors); moneylender (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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