usurer

IPA（発音記号）

A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.

日本語の意味

高利貸し（違法、異常な高金利、または不公平な金利で他者に資金を貸し付ける者）

Rumors spread that the new merchant was an usurer who preyed on farmers during bad harvests.

噂では、新しく来た商人が高利貸しで、不作の間に農民を食い物にしていると言われていた。

意味（1）

A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.

Profitless usurer, why dost thou use

So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?

usurers

（ plural ）