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left with a pawnbroker (= someone who lends money in exchange for valuable possessions): 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):
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.
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.
Contents. PAWN meaning: 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.
pawn. (pɔːn) Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense pawns, present participle pawning, past tense, past participle pawned. 1.verb. 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.
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.
one that is or can be used to further the purposes of another though he liked to play up his influence with city hall, he was really just another pawn of the political bosses. Synonyms & Similar Words. Relevance. tool. minion.
1 pawn / ˈ pɑːn/ noun. plural pawns. Britannica Dictionary definition of PAWN. [count] 1. : one of the eight small pieces that have the least value in the game of chess — see picture at chess. 2. : a person or group that does not have much power and that is controlled by a more powerful person or group — usually + in.
