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
Instead, I drove to a pawnshop in White Center, purchased an old Discman and plugged it into the adapter.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Deborah Pomeranz, a provenance researcher at Berlin City Museum, said it acquired about 4,700 silver objects from a Berlin pawnshop from 1939 to 1940.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
He wasn't in the bodega or the pawnshop.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
In Nevada, pawnshops can charge monthly interest of up to 13%, plus a $5 initial fee and storage costs for certain items.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
“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
Half the stores on the wide street seemed to be pawnshops and check-cashing agencies, and the other half were shuttered.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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