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A loan shark is a person who offers loans at extremely high or illegal interest rates, has strict terms of collection, and generally operates outside the law, often using the threat of violence or other illegal, aggressive, and extortionate actions when seeking to enforce the satisfaction of the debt. [1]
A loan may be considered usurious because of excessive or abusive interest rates or other factors defined by the laws of a state. Someone who practices usury can be called a usurer, but in modern colloquial English may be called a loan shark.
Vigorish (also known as juice, under-juice, the cut, the take, the margin, the house edge or the vig) is the fee charged by a bookmaker for accepting a gambler's wager. In American English, it can also refer to the interest owed a loanshark in consideration for credit.
Fear and intimidation are just some of the tools used by illegal money lenders across England.
shy: the interest charged on loans by loan sharks. shylock business: the business of loansharking. sitdown: a meeting, esp. with another family. soldier: the bottom-level member of an organized crime family who is made. spring cleaning: cleaning up, hiding or getting rid of evidence. straighten out, getting straightened out: becoming a made guy
Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $1.4 billion in damages. New York sues loan shark group accused of charging Manhattan’s City Bakery and other small businesses ‘illegal’ rates of up ...
Borrowers already in trouble due to the cost of living could fall prey to illegal moneylending.
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