pawn ticket

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noun

a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.

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Origin of pawn ticket

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby pawn ticket

pawnbroker, pawnbroking, Pawnee, pawn off, pawnshop, pawn ticket, pawpaw, pawternity leave, Pawtucket, pax, Pax Britannica

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How to use pawn ticket in a sentence

Farrell issued a ticket to an 18-year-old shipyard worker for speeding and an improper exhaust mechanism, according to the TP.
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They were getting more imaginative,” a pawn shop owner thinks of his addict customers in “Back of Beyond.
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One area that would immediately benefit is revenue from ticket sales.
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On Oct. 7, I bought my ticket to Kiev 45 minutes before my flight.
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He had got his ticket of admission to the Casino, after arriving yesterday evening; but the Rooms had not pleased him then.
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Hilda suggested that the ticket-clerk should be interrogated, but the aperture of communication with him was shut.
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Outside Derby station was a ticket platform at which all incoming trains stopped for the collection of tickets.
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He went up to Jorgensen and asked where he could set up a temporary ticket office for Interplanet.
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The clerk who waited on them had come to the table and placed a punched ticket for the sundaes on it.
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British Dictionary definitions for pawn ticket

pawn ticket

noun

a receipt for goods pawned

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