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pawnbroker

/pawn-broh-ker/US // ˈpɔnˌbroʊ kər //UK // (ˈpɔːnˌbrəʊkə) //

典当商,典当行,典当商行,典当业者

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.

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Examples

  • Gun sales have been through the roof in 2020, and some of the pawnbrokers I spoke to said they’ve truly never seen such a sustained boom in gun and ammunition sales as they have now, especially among first-time buyers.

  • If people had more money in their pockets, if the capitalist system worked better, then they wouldn’t need pawnbrokers as much in the first place.

  • People can sell their items to pawnbrokers directly as well, but that’s generally not the business model and not what most people do.

  • The business of a pawnbroker is legally regulated by statute, and the states usually require him to get a license.

  • There was another booth of rather a singular kind—a temporary pawnbroker's, and who appeared to have a good brisk trade.

  • And here it was among razors and pistols and family Bibles in a pawnbroker's window.

  • I come hup jest when the perleeceman and the pawnbroker were a-gripping yer.

  • The pawnbroker looked from money to jewels and from jewels to money with an expression of curiously mingled grief and greed.