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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After World War I, 50 percent of the land was mortgaged to moneylenders by owner-tenant farmers.
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Everyone, however, sympathized with junior officials; and everyone constantly wished a violent death on usurers and moneylenders.
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No figure is given for moneylenders.
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Samuel's large stall was in the rue de Sanghines, the street of the moneylenders.
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The moneylenders then looked to Sim for the cash and threatened him and his family.
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The Carey family had to rely on a house provided by a Bengali moneylender to save them from destitution.
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The mandarins also kept an eye on any emerging capitalists, merchants, moneylenders and nouveaux riches.
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The plaintiff moneylenders offered a loan to the son on the security of his parents' property.