loanmonger
nounEtymology From loan + monger.
1
A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.
- 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:
- 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: