Term: usury: the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
Broader: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Unrelated: overtone: a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
Broader: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Unrelated: center stage: a position of prominence or importance
Broader: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Unrelated: pogrom: organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)
Broader: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Unrelated: phyllodoce: small genus of evergreen Arctic and alpine shrubs
Broader: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Unrelated: rhinoceros beetle: any of various large chiefly tropical beetles having horns on the head; pest on coconuts
Broader: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Unrelated: console: an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture)
Broader: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Unrelated: trey: one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips
Broader: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Unrelated: bristly sarsaparilla: bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
Broader: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Unrelated: principal: the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
Broader: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Unrelated: self-insurance: insuring yourself by setting aside money to cover possible losses rather than by purchasing an insurance policy