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pawn
1[ pawn ]
verb (used with object)
- to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker:
He raised the money by pawning his watch.
to pawn one's life.
noun
- the state of being deposited or held as security, especially with or by a pawnbroker:
jewels in pawn.
- something given or deposited as security, as for money borrowed.
Synonyms: pledge
- a person serving as security; hostage.
- the act of pawning.
pawn
1/ pɔːn /
verb
- to deposit (an article) as security for the repayment of a loan, esp from a pawnbroker
- to stake
to pawn one's honour
noun
- an article deposited as security
- the condition of being so deposited (esp in the phrase in pawn )
- a person or thing that is held as a security, esp a hostage
- the act of pawning
pawn
2/ pɔːn /
noun
- a chessman of the lowest theoretical value, limited to forward moves of one square at a time with the option of two squares on its initial move: it captures with a diagonal move only P Compare piece
- a person, group, etc, manipulated by another
Derived Forms
- ˈpawnage, noun
Other Words From
- pawna·ble adjective
- pawn·er [paw, -ner], paw·nor [paw, -ner, -nawr], noun
- un·pawned adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of pawn1
Word History and Origins
Origin of pawn1
Origin of pawn2
Example Sentences
He is a possible solution to the Nationals’ need for middle-of-the-order offense — and not just another pawn in Pittsburgh’s low-cost rebuild.
Many pawn businesses are multigenerational not only in ownership but in customers.
Perry Lewin has been in the pawn industry for 28 years, but he’s never quite seen a year like this one.
Continuing to prop him up in the media as a political pawn leaves them unable to do so.
Some scientists fear that the vaccine could become a pawn in American election politics and have cautioned against distributing an untested injection.
They were getting more imaginative,” a pawn shop owner thinks of his addict customers in “Back of Beyond.
“Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.
Barely Legal Pawn stars the duo as unscrupulous, possibly deranged pawnshop employees.
With Suzanne, Vee saw someone who could be a pawn in her chess game.
Yet, she is still very much a pawn in the system—her body is actively sold to the highest bidder.
She never dreamed that she herself was a pawn in the game that was intended to bring Nana Sahib to Delhi.
Rat this pawn of the Eye may have been, but even a cornered rat will fight with the courage of a lion.
Afterwards she married one of the most noted scamps in Paris, who wanted a pretty wife as a pawn in some game of his.
To be checkmated by an 'errant' pawn in the very middle of the board is a most ignominious way of losing the game.
In default of the usual bazaars OLeary had returned with the spoils of half a dozen pawn-shops.
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