Individual or business that offers loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.
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Examples for "pawnbroker "
Examples for "pawnbroker "
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 .
1 He picked up a pistol in a hockshop in L.A. and blew out Bookspan's brains.
2 Wait till I send round to the hockshop .
3 I walked downstairs, and I got all the way to Sam's hockshop before it hit me.
4 That hockshop business must really pay.
5 When even a hockshop had to have this receptionist thing out there in front to show it had class.
1 He bought a cornet from a pawn shop and began taking lessons.
2 Meanwhile, the pawn shop 's main competitor is headed for closer scrutiny.
3 But how was Barbara to locate a pawn shop in Washington?
4 Her cheeks burned with humiliation and disgust at the very name pawn shop !
5 Ah, you do right to be driven to a pawn shop .
1 At 10.30 am on Thursday, three Chinese men gathered in a tiny pawn store less than 100 metres from Macau's onion-shaped Lisboa casino.
2 The company has pawn stores across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
3 The Company operates 21 pawn stores in the Mexican state of Sinaloa under the brand name Bazareno.
4 It now plans to open 65 to 75 pawn stores in 2010, mainly in Mexico.
5 The company, which runs 517 pawn stores , will add 70 to 80 stores in 2011, of which a majority are projected to be in Mexico.
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