loanmongerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

loanmonger (plural loanmongers)

1. A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.
   • 1831, [Benjamin Disraeli], chapter I, in The Young Duke. […], volume II (book III), London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 9:

     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.

   • 1937, H. G. Wells, Star-Begotten‎, Chapter 6, §4:

     The Punic Wars […] he presented as a gigantic necessary struggle between noble north-side soldiers and revengeful, obdurate, but extremely competent south-side loanmongers.

参照

• “loanmonger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.