exorbitant interest

collocation in English

meaningsofexorbitantandinterest

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exorbitant
adjective
uk
/ɪɡˈzɔː.bɪ.tənt/us
/eɡˈzːɔr.bə.t̬ənt/
Exorbitant prices, demands, etc. are much ...
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interest
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.trəst/us
/ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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(Definition ofexorbitantandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Those who have made a nice living from speculation andexorbitantinterestrates for years should now make a contribution.
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Theseexorbitantinterestrates simply aggravate the inflation, and they hit hardest the small business man and, of course, everybody living on fixed incomes.
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Most people borrow to make ends meet rather than to make a speculative investment, and many have to payexorbitantinterestrates.
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Why should we not lend an ear to a proposal for controllingexorbitantinterestin the case of moneylenders.
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This company has been chargingexorbitantinterestrates for second mortgages.
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But then the interest rate mentioned in his speech was possibly lower than theexorbitantinterestrates charged by his family firm.
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So shortly the thraldom ofexorbitantinterestcharges will become still more apparent.
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Theexorbitantinterestrates charged by those lenders or loan sharks would not be paid by anyone who was not absolutely desperate for money.
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Withexorbitantinterestrates dampening domestic demand and propping up the pound, recession was inevitable.
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The £100 million investment came too late atexorbitantinterestrate costs.
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They have no hesitation in using violent methods to get repayment of their money atexorbitantinterest.
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Undercover borrowing abroad, andexorbitantinterestrates lured foreign hot money here, which we dressed up as reserves; this is no way to run a self-respecting country.
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In my own port, even with seven new vessels last year, the certified losses were nearly £12,000—and that did not include theexorbitantinterestcharged for the loans.
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Theexorbitantinterestexacted from them was driving many to total ruin and destitution.
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He was forced to meet to lenders terms, selling government bonds atexorbitantinterestrates.
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Most people do not earn enough to get out of debt and are forced to borrow from loan sharks, who chargeexorbitantinterestrates.
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These loans are withexorbitantinterestcreating more problems than solutions.
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Paramasivam is compelled to borrow money, atexorbitantinterest, from a loan shark.
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The higher costs forced many farmers into taking ever larger loans, often from private moneylenders chargingexorbitantinterestrates (60% a year).
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