pawnshop
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈpɔnˌʃɑp/
- US
:
casa de empeños
- Many people use a pawnshop as a quick way to get a loan by leaving valuable items as collateral.
Examples
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Directly across was a pawnshop, just as he remembered.
Fiction book (2002) -
I bought it in a pawnshop.
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We found it at the pawnshop in town.
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You must have seen it in some other pawnshop, sir.
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The apartment next to the pawnshop is empty.
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I bought that at a little pawnshop just two blocks from the boy's house.
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I lugged them to every pawnshop on Sixth Avenue.
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There are times when pawnshops auction some of their valuable pieces at a discounted price.
Blog text (29) -
One pawnshop was open, but I didn't have anything left to pawn.
Fiction book (2001) -
On the other side of the expressway, downtown turned into blocks of strip bars and pawnshops.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
A shop where people leave things to get a loan that may be sold if not paid back
A shop that lends money if you leave something you own as a promise to pay
A shop that gives money when people leave things until they pay it back
A shop that buys used items or lends money and keeps items until you pay back
How Formal
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Morphology
Etymology
Pawnshop comes from pawn, an old word for a 'pledge' — something you leave to promise to pay back a loan, and shop, meaning a place to buy or sell things. So a pawnshop is a shop where people leave or sell valuable items to get cash.