pawnshop
Americannoun
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pawnshops
plural
noun
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Origin of pawnshop
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Jack Ma forgot that, briefly, in October 2020, when at a financial regulators’ summit he said the Chinese banking system operated like a pawnshop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“Without having a rigorous, effective enforcement, nothing’s going to happen,” said Tony DeMarco, a pawnshop owner and president of the Whittier Boulevard Merchants Assn., which opposed the ordinance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
Asset-secured cards are a better gateway to credit and low interest rates than options from a pawnshop or car title loan, which also require collateral.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The experts involved in the restitution efforts describe it as close, painstaking work that often involves tracking down those pawnshop records.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
The door to the pawnshop opens, and an enormous white guy in a white tracksuit comes out and over to us.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
Usually, though, pawnshops and other precious metals buyers sell coins to firms like his, which bundle them for investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
“I can’t believe someone would take it and I hope local pawnshops don’t buy them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
He sold them to booksellers, pawnshops and collectors.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
That’s more than $55 million in fees collected predominantly from low-income Americans each day — not even counting the annual revenue collected by pawnshops and title loan services and rent-to-own schemes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
In one of the pawnshops in Gallup, Nathan stared at the rows and rows of bracelets, rings, bow guards, and stones displayed in glass cases.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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