loan shark

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Synonyms for loan shark

someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest

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Councillor Neil Eustace, Chair of the Public Protection Committee, said: "The Illegal Money Lending Team is doing a fantastic job in helping vulnerable people who are exploited by these loansharks.
This is the moment when Fridge watches in disbelief as his plan to outwit loanshark Dancer fails.
He often goes to a mafia loanshark or shylock (derived from the Jewish moneylender Shylock in Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice").
We now have evidence from two quantitative analyses, therefore, that anti loanshark activity benefited organizations that had associated themselves with this campaign.
The post Policeman turns loanshark appeared first on Cyprus Mail .
A YOUNG builder has told how he faced death after being kidnapped and tortured by a Midland loanshark.
It was like being a loanshark. They asked me to leave in the end."
The Scots heartthrob was a child actor - he had his first role in Taggart, at the age of 12 - as the son of a loanshark who finds his father's body.
Kat's plan to foil the loanshark backfires and she is forced to consider his outrageous offer seriously.
"That person owed money to a loanshark. We didn't intend to hurt him, just frighten him.
On the other hand ourselves, the Greeks and the Portuguese are being bled dry by the ECB and Brussels and are charged loanshark interest rates.
HEAVILY in debt, gambling fixated Phoenix cop Ray Liotta comes up with a crazy plan to rob a local loanshark. You can safely bet it goes bad.
They were on the run from loanshark gangsters and police and Grant had just told Phil that he had slept with his wife, Kathy.