PAWNBROKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pawnbroker mean? 

• PAWNBROKER (noun)
  The noun PAWNBROKER has 1 sense:

1. a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security

  Familiarity information: PAWNBROKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAWNBROKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pawnbroker" is a kind of...):

lender; loaner (someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters)

pledgee (someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge)

 Context examples 

We have at least an hour before us, he remarked, for they can hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He shook his head again, when Gertrude offered him money, though he knew that within the day he would have to make a trip to the pawnbroker.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is possible that he will go to some other pawnbroker in the future.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the pawnbroker's shop, too, I began to be very well known.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This is evidently the undertaker’s, for we have just passed the pawnbroker’s.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As a result, having exhausted his credit with the tradesmen (though he had increased his credit with the grocer to five dollars), his wheel and suit of clothes went back to the pawnbroker.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I had the hint from Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker’s assistant was a formidable man—a man who might play a deep game.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have known her to be thrown into fainting fits by the king's taxes at three o'clock, and to eat lamb chops, breaded, and drink warm ale (paid for with two tea-spoons that had gone to the pawnbroker's) at four.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"There's the black suit," the pawnbroker, who knew his every asset, had answered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Finally he returned to the pawnbroker’s, and, having thumped vigorously upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up to the door and knocked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)