pawnbroker in English

noun
1
a person who lends money at interest on the security of an article pawned.
Of course, it is clear that the pawnbroker made money out of the poor, but they provided a service where none existed and helped people out in the short term.

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1. 11 A pawnbroker will still be a pawnbroker.

2. 2 He finally redeemed his watch from the pawnbroker.

3. He finally redeemed his watch from the pawnbroker.

4. 10 He redeemed his ring from the pawnbroker.

5. 14 Pawnbroker: I am not here to tell you the time.

6. 18 She could get fifty dollars for those if she went to a pawnbroker.

7. 15 Having paid off the pawnbroker, I now had my watch out of hock.

8. 9 Money borrowed from a pawnbroker did not have to be repaid for fifteen months.

9. 21 They can hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed.

10. 16 In this Windle and Maidwell are described as glass sellers, whilst Thomas Gunson has become a pawnbroker.

11. 13 A pawnbroker is a on the business of accepting goods by way security for a loan.

12. 7 I felt very wicked taking them to a pawnbroker, and then I sent the money to Giulia.

13. 12 A pawnbroker is a person who carries on the business of accepting goods by way of security for a loan.

14. 19 Petersburg, dreamed of committing the perfect crime: With an ax he murdered an old widowed pawnbroker and her stepsister,(www.Sentencedict.com) and stole some jewelry from their flat.

15. 20 I stood on tiptoe, face upward and back straightened, to hand the cloth-wrapped bundle onto the counter. How strange the pawnbroker should have put up a counter so forbiddingly high.