"five-six" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the high interest rate given, i.e. when ₱5 is borrowed, ₱6 must be returned.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "five-six (uncountable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Philippine English",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Dimitri A. Germidis, Denis Kessler, Rachel Meghir, Financial Systems and Development: What Role for the Formal and Informal Financial Sectors?, OECD",
          "text": "One of their most notorious loan arrangements is the \"five-six” scheme, that is, for every five pesos borrowed, six must be returned. Usually daily payment is demanded from the first day of the loan, although sometimes payment falls due at the ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Maria Lourdes S. Bautista, Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Linguistics and language education in the Philippines and beyond: a festschrift in honor of Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista",
          "text": "Hapless citizens borrow money from five-six money lenders, e.g. borrowing five thousand and returning six within a month or even a week.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Brij V. Lal, Peter Reeves, Rajesh Rai, The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora",
          "text": "Despite their number and their assimilationist proclivities, Filipino Punjabis are sometimes pejoratively called 'five-six Indians'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Andy Kirkpatrick, The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes, Routledge, page 253",
          "text": "Hapless citizens borrow money from five-six money lenders ('borrowing at high rates of interest', i.e. borrowing five thousand and returning six ... ).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A moneylending scheme stereotypically associated with Indian nationals, especially Punjabis, in the Philippines."
      ],
      "id": "en-five-six-en-noun-ojJhsZRk",
      "links": [
        [
          "moneylending",
          "moneylending"
        ],
        [
          "Indian",
          "Indian"
        ],
        [
          "Punjabi",
          "Punjabi"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Philippines, informal) A moneylending scheme stereotypically associated with Indian nationals, especially Punjabis, in the Philippines."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "5-6"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Philippines",
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "five-six"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the high interest rate given, i.e. when ₱5 is borrowed, ₱6 must be returned.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "five-six (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Philippine English",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Dimitri A. Germidis, Denis Kessler, Rachel Meghir, Financial Systems and Development: What Role for the Formal and Informal Financial Sectors?, OECD",
          "text": "One of their most notorious loan arrangements is the \"five-six” scheme, that is, for every five pesos borrowed, six must be returned. Usually daily payment is demanded from the first day of the loan, although sometimes payment falls due at the ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Maria Lourdes S. Bautista, Linguistic Society of the Philippines, Linguistics and language education in the Philippines and beyond: a festschrift in honor of Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista",
          "text": "Hapless citizens borrow money from five-six money lenders, e.g. borrowing five thousand and returning six within a month or even a week.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Brij V. Lal, Peter Reeves, Rajesh Rai, The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora",
          "text": "Despite their number and their assimilationist proclivities, Filipino Punjabis are sometimes pejoratively called 'five-six Indians'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Andy Kirkpatrick, The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes, Routledge, page 253",
          "text": "Hapless citizens borrow money from five-six money lenders ('borrowing at high rates of interest', i.e. borrowing five thousand and returning six ... ).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A moneylending scheme stereotypically associated with Indian nationals, especially Punjabis, in the Philippines."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "moneylending",
          "moneylending"
        ],
        [
          "Indian",
          "Indian"
        ],
        [
          "Punjabi",
          "Punjabi"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Philippines, informal) A moneylending scheme stereotypically associated with Indian nationals, especially Punjabis, in the Philippines."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Philippines",
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "5-6"
    }
  ],
  "word": "five-six"
}