Meaning of 'usurer' in Catalan is: usurer

usurer: usurer

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usurer, prestador, criat, captaire, metge.

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Noun(1) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest

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(1) At the end of ten years everything was paid off, everything, the usurer 's charges and the accumulation of superimposed interest.(2) Unfortunately, Antonio's money is currently tied up in shipping ventures, but because he desperately wants to help his dear friend, he goes to the usurer Shylock to borrow the funds.(3) The biblical parable of the talents was the central interpretative puzzle in this regard since it appears to advocate usury and, worse still, the careful preserver loses all and the usurer gains more.(4) The merchant boasted to him: u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510After the war between France and Germany I was a usurer and with extorting, cozening, forfeiting and tricks belonging under brokery, I filled the gaols with bankrupts in a year.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb(5) Blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers are punished here by the blistering heat.(6) Where the actual producers fall prey to usurers and merchants, because of their lack of market power, they are reduced to a subsistence existence and forced to part with the surplus product.(7) If you oblige many men to be money-lenders, some will assuredly be usurers .(8) He governed Sardinia, expelling usurers and restricting the demands made on the Sardinians for the upkeep of himself and his staff.(9) In the West the taking of usury was prohibited to both the clergy and the laity in the ninth century, and the sanctions against usurers were intensified by a series of conciliar decrees between 1179 and 1311.(10) All evils, they repeat again and again, are caused by the erroneous teachings of the u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510dismal scienceu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb of economics and the u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510credit monopolyu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb of the bankers and usurers .(11) Usurers haggle in the village square.(12) The nation remains at the mercy of banking usurers .