mon‧ey‧lend‧er /ˈmʌniˌlendə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
someone whose business is to lend money to people, especially someone who makes people pay back a lot more money than they have borrowed
—moneylending noun [uncountable]:
Most of his fortune came from moneylending.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲