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Meanings of pawnbroker in English
Individual or business that offers loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.
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Usage of pawnbroker in English
1
The pawnbroker protested his innocence, and denied the taking in the shifts.
2
The pawnbroker offered him five-and-twenty pounds on the security of the opal.
3
The advantages to the pawnbroker of this secret arrangement would be many.
4
Not in Morebury, even supposing there was a pawnbroker's in the place.
5
It appears that he had discovered the identical suit at the pawnbroker's.
6
Edward bought the duplicate of her, and went downstairs to the pawnbroker's.
7
This is evidently the undertaker's, for we have just passed the pawnbroker's.
8
I daresay he was never really a pawnbroker and is quite respectable.
9
He went into a pawnbroker's shop at the corner of the street.
10
I expressed some surprize to the pawnbroker, and asked the lady's name.
11
He hastened to the pawnbroker's at which the robbery had been committed.
12
The pawnbroker reflected, could not understand this subtlety, went behind his counter.
13
Susan knew what a pawnbroker's ticket was, and read it with curiosity.
14
He bought a secondhand watch at a pawnbroker's, but disdained a chain.
15
This pawnbroker fellow shot into the street and dragged her back inside.
16
Andy pointed out the pawnbroker's shop from which he had just come.
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