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PAWNBROKER'S SHOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pawnbroker's shop mean? 

PAWNBROKER'S SHOP (noun)
  The noun PAWNBROKER'S SHOP has 1 sense:

1. a shop where loans are made with personal property as securityplay

  Familiarity information: PAWNBROKER'S SHOP used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PAWNBROKER'S SHOP (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A shop where loans are made with personal property as security

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

loan office; pawnbroker's shop; pawnshop

Hypernyms ("pawnbroker's shop" is a kind of...):

shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)


 Context examples 


At the pawnbroker's shop, too, I began to be very well known.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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