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PAWNBROKER'S SHOP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pawnbroker's shop mean?
• PAWNBROKER'S SHOP (noun)
The noun PAWNBROKER'S SHOP has 1 sense:
1. a shop where loans are made with personal property as security
Familiarity information: PAWNBROKER'S SHOP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shop where loans are made with personal property as security
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
loan office; pawnbroker's shop; pawnshop
Hypernyms ("pawnbroker's shop" is a kind of...):
shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)
Context examples
At the pawnbroker's shop, too, I began to be very well known.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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