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单词 pawnbrokery
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pawnbrokeryn.

Brit. /ˈpɔːnˌbrəʊk(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpɔnˌbroʊk(ə)ri/, /ˈpɑnˌbroʊk(ə)ri/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pawn n.3, brokery n.
Etymology: < pawn n.3 + brokery n., after pawnbroker n. With sense 1 compare earlier pawnshop n.
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.
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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).
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n.1821
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