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pawnshop

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pawn·shop  (pônshp)
n.
The shop of a pawnbroker.

pawnshop [ˈpɔːnˌʃɒp]
n
(Business / Commerce) the premises of a pawnbroker
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Noun1.pawnshop - a shop where loans are made with personal property as securitypawnshop - a shop where loans are made with personal property as security
shop, store - a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
Translations
pawnshop [ˈpɔːnʃɒp] Nmonte m de piedad, casa f de empeños
pawnshop [ˈpɔːnˌʃɒp] nmonte m di pietà


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But the nervousness that assailed him at the door of that inglorious haunt - a pawnshop - and the effort necessary to invent the pseudonym (which, somehow, seemed to him a necessary part of the procedure), had taken more time than he imagined: and when he returned to the billiard-room with the spoils, the bank had already closed its doors.
We're pulling out of the financial pawnshop in fine shape, and we'll get out without leaving one unredeemed pledge behind.
Sometimes things went wrong, and she found herself with no money at all; then her trifling possessions found their way to a pawnshop in the Vauxhall Bridge Road, and she ate bread and butter till things grew brighter.
 
 
 
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