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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest [syn: usurer, loan shark, moneylender, shylock]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1905 one who lends money to individuals at exorbitant rates of interest

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(loan sharks) If you describe someone as a loan shark, you disapprove of them because they lend money to people and charge them very high rates of interest on the loan. (INFORMAL) N-COUNT [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

Shylock, accommodate with, advance, banker, float a loan, lease-lend, lend, lend-lease, lender, loan, loan officer, loaner, money broker, moneylender, moneymonger, mortgage holder, mortgagee, negotiate a loan, pawnbroker, shark, usurer