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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Buying & selling - general words
all-you-can-eat
anti-consumer
anti-dumping
back order
barter
dealership
desk research
distribution channel
do business with someone/something
dumping
ebay
flood
out of business
pre-emption
pre-order
procurement
rewards card
shelf
tender
the bottom drops/falls out of the marketidiom

pawn | American Dictionary

pawn
verb[ T ]
us/pɔn/

pawnverb[T] (TRADE FOR MONEY)

to leave a possession with someone in order to borrow money from that person, with the understanding that if you do not pay it back within the agreed time, the person can keep your possession and sell it
pawn
noun[ C ]
us/pɔn/

pawnnoun[C] (GAME PIECE)

any of the eight least valuable pieces in the game of chess
A pawn is also a person who is controlled by others and used for their own advantage:
She felt she had been used as a political pawn.

pawn | Business English

pawn
verb[ T ]
uk /pɔːn/us
to leave a valuable possession with a pawnbroker(= someone who lends money in exchange for possessions):
Under the law, the owner of an automobile may pawn it to secure a loan up to $2,500.
pawn
noun
uk /pɔːn/us
[ C ]
a person or organization that does not have any real power, but is used by others to achieve something:
a pawn in sthThe federal jury rejected the company's defense that they were an unwitting pawn in the scheme to sell confidential documents.
 in pawn
left with a pawnbroker(= someone who lends money in exchange for valuable possessions):
If a pawn shop loans $50 on a gold necklace, they might charge $5 to keep the necklace in pawn for each month.
 out of pawn
no longer with a pawnbroker(= someone who lends money in exchange for valuable possessions):
She had pawned the ring, and couldn't get it out of pawn until the Saturday.

Examples of pawn

pawn
In reality, he was more pawn than player, talented, hard-working, and insecurely based.
Thus, for example, if the cultivator holds the right to bequeath, this person certainly holds the rights to plant trees, rent out parcels, and pawn.
Theodore does not emerge from this as a powerful man, indeed he is very much everybody else's pawn.
In addition to the wild-type, many mixed clones of wild-type and pawn cells appeared in progeny obtained from both crosses.
Instead, she would experience herself as a pawn.
Cells which showed only whirling or backward swimming for less than 3 s, were judged to be exhibiting the pawn phenotype.
The simplest results of segregation observed among them was that almost all the progeny expressed pawn.
Clones with wild-type and pawn phenotypes are indicated by white and black ovals, respectively.
Thus, there are multiple reasons why the sensitivity to being an origin versus pawn, which supports the general function of self-regulation, may have evolved.
The following six rights are considered: the right to plant or replant trees, rent out, pawn, bequeath, give, and sell.
Eventually the woman needs to pawn the coat to pay the rent.
As producers, dyers were especially affected by the increased vigilance around tax collection, the new credit policies and the loss of pawn labor.
Parents which produced both wild-type and pawn clones from autogamy appeared in every autogamous generation.
In the autogamous lineage thus obtained, some wild-type parents produced only wild-type, while others produced both wild-type and pawn from autogamy.
All normal chess rules apply, including conventions for castling either kingside or queenside, a pawn's initial two-step option, "en passant" captures, promotion, and so on.
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