pawnshop
Noun
Meaning
a shop where loans are made with personal property as security
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A pawnshop might have too little inventory if, for example, it mostly buys jewels and gold that it resells or smelts—or perhaps the pawnshop owner quickly sells most items through specialty shops (e.
As such, the customer who comes in with this laptop that they paid $1000 for when it was new may be offered as little as $50 by the pawnshop owner, who is taking into account all of the risk and cost factors.
And a 43-year-old man was shot and killed outside a pawnshop in Minneapolis that was being lotted Wednesday.
As Zed is raping Marsellus, Butch kills Maynard with a katana retrieved from the pawnshop.
For example, if a young able-bodied man comes into the pawnshop to pawn an electric wheelchair (perhaps claiming it to be the possession of his late grandparent), the pawnshop owner may doubt that the item will be redeemed.
A valid and licensed pawnshop in Malaysia must always declare themselves as a "pajak gadai" or a pawn shop for their company registration.