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PAWNSHOP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pawnshop mean?
• PAWNSHOP (noun)
The noun PAWNSHOP has 1 sense:
1. a shop where loans are made with personal property as security
Familiarity information: PAWNSHOP 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 ("pawnshop" is a kind of...):
shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)
Context examples
Every debt he owed in the world, including the pawnshop, with its usurious interest, amounted to less than a hundred dollars.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In the morning he paid every bill, gave Maria three months' advance on the room, and redeemed every pledge at the pawnshop.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And from such largess, dispensed from his future, Martin turned and took his one good suit of clothes to the pawnshop.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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