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PAWNBROKER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pawnbroker" is a kind of...):
lender; loaner (someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters)
pledgee (someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge)
Context examples:
Each time I was hungry and heading for the pawnbroker.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; I have a small pawnbroker’s business at Coburg Square, near the City.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had just come from a fruitless interview with the pawnbroker, from whom he had tried to wring an additional loan on his wheel.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Now a pawnbroker’s business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in the mornings.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And finally to be added, his pledges, plus interest, with the pawnbroker—watch, $5.50; overcoat, $5.50; wheel, $7.75; suit of clothes, $5.50 (60 % interest, but what did it matter?)—grand total, $56.10.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You see, Watson, he explained in the early hours of the morning as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, it was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the League, and the copying of the Encyclopædia, must be to get this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of hours every day.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He went nowhere, save to the pawnbroker, took no exercise, and ate methodically when he was hungry and had something to cook, and just as methodically went without when he had nothing to cook.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
