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If a pawn shop loans $50 on a gold necklace, they might charge $5 to keep the necklace in pawn for each month. out of pawn. no longer with a pawnbroker (= someone who lends money in exchange for valuable possessions): She had pawned the ring, and couldn't get it out of pawn until the Saturday.
Origin of pawn 1. First recorded in 1490–1500; noun from Middle French pan; Old French pan (d), pant, apparently from West Germanic; compare Old Frisian pand, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch pant, German Pfand; verb derivative of the noun. Origin of pawn 2.
Merriam-Webster unabridged. The meaning of PAWN is one of the chessmen of least value having the power to move only forward ordinarily one square at a time, to capture only diagonally forward, and to be promoted to any piece except a king upon reaching the eighth rank. How to use pawn in a sentence.
PAWN definition: 1. in the game of chess, the smallest piece and the one that has the lowest value 2. someone who…. Learn more.
Definition of pawn noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
To pawn something is to use it as collateral when you're borrowing money. When you pawn a necklace at a pawn shop, you get cash in exchange for it with the understanding that you can buy it back later. The benefit when you pawn something is getting cash immediately.
pawn. British English: pawn VERB / pɔːn /. If you pawn something that you own, you leave it with a pawnbroker, who gives you money for it and who can sell it if you do not pay back the money before a certain time. He is contemplating pawning his watch. American English: pawn / ˈpɔn /. Brazilian Portuguese: empenhar.
Origin of Pawn. Middle English from Old French pedon, paon from Medieval Latin pedō pedōn- foot soldier from Late Latin one who has broad, splayed feet from Latin pēs ped- foot ped- in Indo-European roots. From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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