loan shark

person who offered loans with extremely high interest rates, often with strict terms of collection
Occupation occupation Q1975715
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loan shark

Summary

loan shark is an occupation[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of occupation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,377 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • loan shark's image is recorded as Miethaie zu Fischstäbchen 3.jpg[3].
  • loan shark's instance of is recorded as occupation[4].
  • loan shark's instance of is recorded as profession[5].
  • shark is named after loan shark[6].
  • loan shark's subclass of is recorded as moneylender[7].
  • loan shark's Commons category is recorded as Loan sharks[8].
  • loan shark's field of this occupation is recorded as usury[9].
  • loan shark's field of this occupation is recorded as predatory lending[10].
  • loan shark's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03d2fg[11].
  • loan shark's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0149576[12].
  • loan shark's has characteristic is recorded as criminality[13].
  • loan shark's BBC Things ID is recorded as 66e36896-5680-481f-afaf-aeeae28f9389[14].
  • loan shark's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'usurière'}[15].
  • loan shark's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'usurera'}[16].
  • loan shark's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'oderuhinja'}[17].
  • loan shark's male form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'oderuh'}[18].
  • loan shark's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i93866[19].
  • loan shark's BBC News topic ID is recorded as ck6wknn4ppxt[20].
  • loan shark's Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID is recorded as 67391[21].
  • loan shark's KBpedia ID is recorded as LoanSharking[22].
  • loan shark's IMDb keyword is recorded as loan-shark[23].

Why It Matters

loan shark ranks in the top 5% of occupation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,377 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_loan-shark_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{loan shark}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/loan-shark}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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