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usurer

/yoo-zher-er/US // ˈyu ʒər ər //UK // (ˈjuːʒərə) //

担保人,担保商,担保者,担保方

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who lends money and charges interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawful rate; moneylender.
    • : Obsolete. a person who lends money at interest.

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Examples

  • U was an Usurer, a miserable elf; V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.

  • Here he plainly heard the screams redoubled, and, as he thought, the sounds came from the usurer's apartment.

  • Well, I found the usurer just coming out of the great western entrance, heathen as he is, looking as pious as a pilgrim.

  • The festivities last a long time; at intervals the voices of women can be heard outside hurling curses at the usurer.

  • Particularly the base usurer who is allowed to get the unhappy Christian into his clutches nine times out of ten?