pawnbroker

Noun

Meaning

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

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Examples

A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination. Arthur Wing Pinero

However, if a customer offers an extremely low price the pawnbroker may turn down the offer, because this suggests that the item may either be counterfeit or stolen. Source: Internet

She trails him to the pawn shop and finds out from the pawnbroker that he traded the coat for a gun he had pawned earlier. Source: Internet

Dostoevsky studies the psychological impact upon a desperate and impoverished student when he murders a despicable pawnbroker, transgressing moral law to ultimately “benefit humanity.” Source: Internet

A pawnbroker can also be a charity. Source: Internet

Once the pawnbroker determines the item is genuine and not likely stolen, and that it is marketable, the pawnbroker offers the customer an amount for it. Source: Internet

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