pawn
verb/pɔːn/
/pɔːn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they pawn | /pɔːn/ /pɔːn/ |
| he / she / it pawns | /pɔːnz/ /pɔːnz/ |
| past simple pawned | /pɔːnd/ /pɔːnd/ |
| past participle pawned | /pɔːnd/ /pɔːnd/ |
| -ing form pawning | /ˈpɔːnɪŋ/ /ˈpɔːnɪŋ/ |
- pawn something to leave an object with a pawnbroker in exchange for money. The object is returned to the owner if they pay back the money within an agreed period of time. If not, it can be sold.Word Originverb late 15th cent. (as a noun): from Old French pan ‘pledge, security’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch pand and German Pfand.
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