pawnbrokern.

1658 J. Quarles Hist. Most Vile Dimagoras iii. 96 Goalers are Hells pawn-brokers, for they take Forty, per Cent. and doe't for pity sake.

1687 London Gaz. No. 2305/3 Encouragement and Connivence..from Petty-Tradesmen, Pawn-Brokers, and others.

1730 H. Fielding Author's Farce i. iv. 71 Fetch my Hat hither. Carry it to the Pawn-broker's.

1786 Irish Act 26 Geo. III c. 43 (title) An Act to establish the Business of a Pawnbroker.

1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. v. 86 All the knives and scissors were at the pawnbroker's.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xii. 267 She was an unlicensed pawnbroker, keeping what was popularly called a Leaving Shop, by lending insignificant sums on insignificant articles.

1929 Amer. Mercury Jan. 114/1 We call a pawnbroker uncle; so do the French.

1999 J. Burchill Married Alive iii. 37 Married at eighteen... No money, natch—used to take her wedding ring to the pawnbroker's every Monday and get it back every Friday, payday.

1856 Times 3 Sept. 5/1 (advt.) General pawnbrokerage company. For prospectus or shares apply to [etc.].

1896 Cent. Mag. Feb. 540 Every Jew..must have..a notarial authorization for pawnbrokerage.

1998 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 36 1429/1 This small core area was..divided into districts, each specialized in an activity such as commercial banking, pawnbrokerage, or light or heavy manufacturing.

1824 Times 6 Nov. 2/5 A pleasing variety of joint stock companies..have of late years risen like exhalations: there has been a Bread Company, a Beer Company, a Pawnbrokering Company, [etc.]

1921 A. H. Vandenberg Greatest American, A. Hamilton 183 To restore the credit, the honor and the good name of the United States could permit of no pawnbrokering in government securities by the government itself.

1994 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 80 1436/2 Common Jewish occupations of low status reminiscent of European ghetto stereotypes such as peddling, pawnbrokering, and scavenging for scrap were glossed over.