N. lending,
loan, advance, accommodation, # feneration|,
mortgage, second mortgage, home loan,
investment, note, bond, commercial paper,
mont de piete, pawnshop, my uncle's,
lender,
pawnbroker, money lender,
usurer, loan shark, loaner v,
lend, advance, accommodate with, lend on security,
loan,
pawn, intrust,
invest, place out to interest, put out to interest, let,
demise,
lease,
sett, underlet
Adj. lending, lent, unborrowed &c. (see borrowed )
Adv. in advance, on loan, on security
N. merchant, trader, dealer,
monger,
chandler,
salesman, changer,
regrater,
shopkeeper,
shopman,
tradesman,
tradespeople,
tradesfolk, retailer,
chapman,
hawker,
huckster,
higgler,
pedlar,
colporteur,
cadger,
autolycus,
sutler,
vivandiere, costerman,
costermonger,
tallyman,
camelot, faker,
vintner, money broker, money changer, money lender,
cambist,
usurer, moneyer, banker,
jobber, broker,
buyer, seller, bear, bull,
concern, firm
N. credit, trust,
tick,
score, tally, account, # letter of credit, circular note,
duplicate,
mortgage,
lien,
debenture, paper credit, floating capital,
draft, lettre de creance,
securities,
creditor,
lender,
lessor,
mortgagee,
dun,
usurer, credit account, line of credit, open line of credit, credit card
V. keep an account with, run up an account with, intrust, credit,
accredit, place to one's credit, credit to one's account, place to one's account|, give credit, take credit, fly a kite|
Adv. on credit, on account, to the account of, to the credit of, a compte
N. parsimony, parcity|,
parsimoniousness,
stinginess,
stint,
illiberality,
tenacity,
avarice,
greed,
miser,
niggard,
churl, screw,
skinflint,
crib,
codger,
muckworm,
scrimp,
lickpenny,
hunks,
curmudgeon,
harpagon,
harpy,
extortioner,
jew,
usurer,
hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny
V. be parsimonious,
grudge,
begrudge,
stint,
pinch,
gripe, screw, dole out, hold back,
withhold,
starve,
famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint, drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain,
cheapen, beat down, stop one hole in a sieve, have an itching palm,
grasp,
grab Adj. parsimonious,
penurious,
stingy,
miserly, mean,
shabby,
peddling,
scrubby, penny wise, near,
niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted,
tight,
sparing,
chary,
grudging,
griping,
illiberal, ungenerous,
churlish,
hidebound,
sordid,
mercenary,
venal,
covetous,
usurious,
avaricious,
greedy,
extortionate,
rapacious Adv. with a sparing hand
Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, "hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill", "the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures", words relating to the sentiment and moral powers
