loanmonger

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noun

A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.

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Meanings

nounloanmonger (plural loanmongers)

plural loanmongers

  1. A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.

    The Punic Wars […] he presented as a gigantic necessary struggle between noble north-side soldiers and revengeful, obdurate, but extremely competent south-side loanmongers.

    1937, H. G. Wells, Star-Begotten, Chapter 6, §4
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    Teach us, that wealth is not elegance; that profusion is not magnificence; and that splendour is not beauty. Teach us, that taste is a talisman, which can do greater wonders than the millions of the loan-monger.

    1831, [Benjamin Disraeli], chapter I, in The Young Duke. […], volume II (book III), London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 9

Origin

From loan + monger.

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APA

loanmonger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loanmonger

MLA

“loanmonger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loanmonger. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “loanmonger,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loanmonger.

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