"Loan shark" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... &c v.; loan, advance, accommodation, feneration^; mortgage, second mortgage, home loan &c (security) 771; investment; note, bond, commercial paper. mont de piete [Fr.], pawnshop, my uncle's. lender, pawnbroker, money lender; usurer, loan shark. loaner (of item loaned). V. lend, advance, accommodate with; lend on security; loan; pawn &c (security) 771. intrust, invest; place out to interest, put out to interest. let, demise, lease, sett^, underlet. Adj. lending &c v.; lent &c v.; unborrowed &c (borrowed) ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... a business interest subjected first to excommunication—literally—and then to outlawry, is that of the usurer, or, in modern parlance, the loan shark. To the mediaeval mind there was something distinctly immoral in an income from property devoted to the furnishing of personal loans. We need not stop to defend the mediaeval position or to attack it; all that concerns us here is that an opportunity for profit—that is, a ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various |
