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Noun
1. black-market lending; illegal loan
Wikipedia definition
2. Loan sharkA loan shark is a person or body that offers unsecured loans at illegally high interest rates to individuals, often enforcing repayment by blackmail or threats of violence. Throughout history, usury laws made loan sharks commonplace. Many moneylenders skirted between legal and extra-legal activity. In the recent western world, loan sharks have been a feature of the criminal underworld, but are less common in law-abiding life.
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Other forms
ヤミ金融 【ヤミきんゆう】

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