"moneylord" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: moneylords [plural]
Etymology: money + lord Etymology templates: {{af|en|money|lord}} money + lord Head templates: {{en-noun}} moneylord (plural moneylords)
  1. (slang) An individual who lends money in exchange for interest. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-moneylord-en-noun-aG91dqs9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2014, Max Beer, An Inquiry into Physiocracy (Routledge Revivals), Routledge",
          "text": "The owner of land and the owner of money let or lent their respective instruments of production and commerce to farmers and merchants, who then surrendered a part of their profits or gains to the landlord and moneylord. The payment to the former was called rent, the payment to the other was called interest.",
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          "ref": "1928, The Equitist Plan: Being the First Nine Chapters of The Ideal Country and how to Get There",
          "text": "Human beings never have the power to command satisfactions from each other except in exchange for equivalent satisfactions produced by them, or by the exercise of tribute-compelling power, which has its ultimate type in the chattel slave owner. The normal law — the law of human association — distributes exertions to producers thru immediate personal services, and the exchange of commodities. There is in nature no room for either landlord or moneylord (called capitalist).",
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