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moneylord

moneylord noun: a person who lends money in exchange for interest; usurer.

Noun

moneylord (plural moneylords)

  1. (slang) A person who lends money in exchange for interest; usurer.
    • The owner of land and the owner of money let or lent their respective instruments of production and commerce to farmers and merchants, who then surrendered a part of their profits or gains to the landlord and moneylord. The payment to the former was called rent, the payment to the other was called...2014, Max Beer, An Inquiry into Physiocracy (Routledge Revivals), Routledge, →ISBN
    • Human beings never have the power to command satisfactions from each other except in exchange for equivalent satisfactions produced by them, or by the exercise of tribute-compelling power, which has its ultimate type in the chattel slave owner. The normal law — the law of human association —...1928, The Equitist Plan: Being the First Nine Chapters of The Ideal Country and how to Get There

Forms of moneylord

pluralmoneylords

Origin of moneylord

From money + lord.

Questions about moneylord

What does moneylord mean?
Moneylord means a person who lends money in exchange for interest; usurer.
What part of speech is moneylord?
Moneylord is a noun.
What is the plural of moneylord?
The plural of moneylord is moneylords.

Words near moneylord in the dictionary

  1. moneylending
  2. moneyless
  3. moneylessness
  4. moneylike
  5. moneyline
  6. moneylord
  7. moneylords
  8. moneymaker
  9. Moneymaker effect
  10. moneymakers
  11. moneymaking

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