Definition of "moneylender" [moneylender]

• One that lends money at an interest rate. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In 1966, a young man named Ed Greenwood was writing adventures about a certain moneylender named Mirt."
• "The Marx and Ritz Brothers drive reality squealing like a moneylender from the temple."
• "In theory the sale of a squire's land to a moneylender is a minor and exceptional necessity."