- Exhorbitant interest - Exorbitant rate of interest - Extortionate lending - Money-lending - A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for
a loan, as of money; interest. - The practice of taking interest. - Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower
for the use of money.
- Deduction from the usual cost - Reduce to a solution - Reduction in price - To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to
make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per
cent for prompt payment of bills. - To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance
for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange. - To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and
form conclusions concerning (an event). - To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
- Hockshop businessman - Hockshop proprietor - Moneylender gives little chesspiece to dealer - One who makes a business of lending money on the
security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
- A bank or a pawnbroker's shop. - A public institution for lending money to the poor at
a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called
also mont de piete.