0 a person who lends someone money with the agreement that they will pay back a very much larger amount of money later:
The interest paid by the small farmer to local usurers frequently ranged from 25 to 100 percent.
The capital accumulated by the merchants and usurers was originally unproductive.
To remove the dependence of small farmers upon local usurers, loan funds were established in many districts.
Merchants pragmatically expressed their indignation at usurers and bankrupts as violators of the charity, moderation, and prudence they themselves claimed to display.
It is the usurers we have to subsidise.
The profitability of entrepreneurs is being thrown to the usurer.
They got rid of the usurer, the banker and the pawnbroker, and the landlord went at the same time.
We believe that the piling-up of usurers' debts is injuring the world and that you must.
