| 词汇 | moneylender |
| 释义 | moneylender noun[ C ] mainly disapprovinguk /ˈmʌn.iˌlen.dər/ us /ˈmʌn.iˌlen.dɚ/ a person or organization whose job is to lend money to people in return for payment: 放债者；钱庄 Families with money problems often fall into the hands of the moneylenders and get further into debt.出现经济困难的家庭常受放债人的摆布，在债务中越陷越深。 Compare loan sharkinformaldisapproving See also lender Borrowers & lenders bondholder borrower creditor deadbeat debtor financier guarantor lender loan shark mortgagee pawnbroker usurer moneylender | Business Englishmoneylender noun[ C ] FINANCEuk /ˈmʌniˌlendər/us a person or business that lends money but is not connected with a bank: The moneylender targeted low income households. Examples of moneylendermoneylender Weaving families generally owned their own modest houses, their looms and their other tools, though frequently these served as security against debts to moneylenders. For example, it enabled those workers who were financially bonded to a particular landlord and/or moneylender to pay off their debts. Although freed from landlords and moneylenders, they were enslaved by their new employers. A few owned some marginal plots of land in their own name thirty years ago, but even this was often soon enough lost to moneylenders. As farmers take out loans to pay for the inputs, they become dependent on moneylenders and continued pesticide use, which is frequently ineffective and uneconomic. Her husband had gone away with their son in search of work; they needed cash to pay the accumulating rent and interest to the moneylender. In the 1880s debt was indeed a constraint on working-class families, who struggled to make ends meet, resorting to the pawnbroker or to unlicensed moneylenders. A big percentage of these men were either free or voluntary workers who paid their own passages or borrowed from village moneylenders or recruiting agents. Traditionally, many of them worked as traders and moneylenders. He notes that junior civilians and soldiers found it hard to make ends meet, which resulted in their living 'in misery' or falling into debt to moneylenders. Levi musters considerable evidence to show that the moneylenders were dispersed across the countryside, although their presence was most notable in the cities. Most therefore were forced to borrow in order to pay-which increased the agriculturist's tax burden, lined the pockets of the moneylender, while adding nothing to the government's income. High prices tempted cocoa farmers into unsustainable consumption patterns, according to the paper, and when prices inevitably fell, farmers were thrown into the clutches of moneylenders. It is a sort of moneylender's squeeze with a vengeance or, rather, a pound of flesh from the most defenceless people of our land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At present, a great deal of money is spent by moneylenders in sending out circulars. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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