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Meanings of pawn in English
Piece in standard shogi; moves one square straight forward; can promote to a promoted pawn.
Related terms
Portuguese
peão Synonyms
Examples for "instrument"
Examples for "instrument"
1
They used the law as an instrument of change to better society.
2
For each instrument, a new set of questions needs to be asked.
3
Unfortunately, neither instrument found any evidence of a planet-wide subsurface water system.
4
That leaves interest rates as the main instrument for helping the economy.
5
Objectives: To develop a mechanical syringe procedure for identification of instrument problems.
1
I think him more likely to be a cat's-paw than a felon.
2
You'll use me as a cat's-paw to pull down this inconvenient duke.
3
He had made a cat's-paw of her, that's what he had done!
4
The British had used Belgium as a cat's-paw; then they had deserted her.
5
I knew that I had been cat's-paw in some game of high stakes.
Usage of pawn in English
1
He also took issue with Derek being used as a political pawn.
2
In addition, a pawn transaction takes a matter of minutes, he noted.
3
Don't try to pawn us off on the New England Patriots, either.
4
Passing a line of broken prams, great for transport to the pawn.
5
Hence, the solution can never be the 'pawn' known as estimated bill.
6
The commissioners still held Cézar Galbaud-thishostage was their best negotiating pawn.
7
Now as ever the woman is but a pawn in the game.
8
He was a pawn in the hands of firm-partners and assorted secretaries.
9
She felt briefly sorry for Aline, a pawn in a complex game.
10
When they need the money they just pawn or sell their jewellery.
11
You feel yourself and your branch stores a pawn in the game.
12
At the time, Jones was widely dismissed as a gold-digging political pawn.
13
Some of the emeralds had been discovered in a Third Avenue pawn-shop.
14
The company has pawn stores across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
15
And he needed her as a pawn to trade away for Ali.
16
You can't just undo years of being trained to be a pawn.
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Pawn through the time
Pawn across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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