pawn 的 2 个定义
- to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
- to pledge; stake; risk: to pawn one's life.
- the state of being deposited or held as security, especially with or by a pawnbroker: jewels in pawn.
- something given or deposited as security, as for money borrowed.
- a person serving as security; hostage.
- the act of pawning.
pawn 近义词
security for a loan
person who is a fool
give as security for a loan
更多pawn例句
- He is a possible solution to the Nationals’ need for middle-of-the-order offense — and not just another pawn in Pittsburgh’s low-cost rebuild.
- Many pawn businesses are multigenerational not only in ownership but in customers.
- Perry Lewin has been in the pawn industry for 28 years, but he’s never quite seen a year like this one.
- Continuing to prop him up in the media as a political pawn leaves them unable to do so.
- Some scientists fear that the vaccine could become a pawn in American election politics and have cautioned against distributing an untested injection.
- They were getting more imaginative,” a pawn shop owner thinks of his addict customers in “Back of Beyond.
- “Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.
- Barely Legal Pawn stars the duo as unscrupulous, possibly deranged pawnshop employees.
- With Suzanne, Vee saw someone who could be a pawn in her chess game.
- Yet, she is still very much a pawn in the system—her body is actively sold to the highest bidder.
- She never dreamed that she herself was a pawn in the game that was intended to bring Nana Sahib to Delhi.
- Rat this pawn of the Eye may have been, but even a cornered rat will fight with the courage of a lion.
- Afterwards she married one of the most noted scamps in Paris, who wanted a pretty wife as a pawn in some game of his.
- To be checkmated by an 'errant' pawn in the very middle of the board is a most ignominious way of losing the game.
- In default of the usual bazaars OLeary had returned with the spoils of half a dozen pawn-shops.