单词 | pawnbrokery |
释义 | pawnbrokeryn. Now rare. 1. A pawnbroker's business or premises. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > pawnshop Lombard1609 lumber1617 lumber-house1677 pawnshop1720 rumbo ken1724 pop-shop1772 spout1819 pawnbrokery1821 dolly-shop1851 pawn1868 hock-shop1871 poverty shop1948 1821 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 94 493 Madame Necker..founded a charitable pawnbrokery at Paris. 1852 S. L. Blanchard in Househ. Words 17 Apr. 116/1 Loans from the Mont de Piété may be effected..at the succursale..established to meet the requirements of an overflowing clientelle—a ‘Pawnbrokery of Ease’, in fact. 1958 PMLA 73 97/2 The diabolic Montague Tigg says to David, keeper of a pawnbrokery called the Golden Balls, ‘You must dispense with one half-quarter of an ounce in weighing out your pound of flesh.’ 2. = pawnbroking n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > pawnbroking pawnbroking1749 pawnbrokering1824 pawnbrokery1833 pawnbrokerage1856 1833 New Monthly Mag. May 84 Pawnbrokery is..a rational proceeding, for the pledge always retains the value for which it is engaged. 1920 H. Begbie W. Booth viii. 99 Among the disappointments which met our young venturer in London was the impossibility of getting work outside the pawnbrokery business. 1994 Boston Globe (Nexis) 8 May b8 Bulstrode..married a wealthy widow and went on to make a fortune in the quite ungentlemanly profession of pawnbrokery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1821 |
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