moneylord

English

Etymology

money +‎ lord

Noun

moneylord (plural moneylords)

1. (slang) A person who lends money in exchange for interest; usurer.
   • 2014, Max Beer, An Inquiry into Physiocracy (Routledge Revivals), Routledge, →ISBN:

     The owner of land and the owner of money let or lent their respective instruments of production and commerce to farmers and merchants, who then surrendered a part of their profits or gains to the landlord and moneylord. The payment to the former was called rent, the payment to the other was called interest.

   • 1928, The Equitist Plan: Being the First Nine Chapters of The Ideal Country and how to Get There:

     Human beings never have the power to command satisfactions from each other except in exchange for equivalent satisfactions produced by them, or by the exercise of tribute-compelling power, which has its ultimate type in the chattel slave owner. The normal law — the law of human association — distributes exertions to producers thru immediate personal services, and the exchange of commodities. There is in nature no room for either landlord or moneylord (called capitalist).

   • 1891, Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor of America:

     The February meeting should be a Parliament of the people assembled to do that which will most effectually oppose the encroachments and usurpations of the moneylord, the landlord and the lord of party.

   • 1982, Robert Fishman, Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 125:

     Not only does the moneylord have his headquarters there [in the city]; it is also the natural home of the "satellites of rent" — the experts who direct the artificial economy of cities and the "white collar armies" who carry out their commands.