pawn
典当,当,典当品,典当业
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Definitions
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- : to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
- : to pledge; stake; risk: to pawn one's life.
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- : 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.
- : a person serving as security; hostage.
- : the act of pawning.
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Examples
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 of the Eye may have been, but even a cornered rat will fight with the courage of a lion.