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pawn

English

  1. 🔊 borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan
  2. 🔊 (chess) the least powerful piece
  3. 🔊 an article deposited as security
  4. 🔊 a person used by another to gain an end
  5. 🔊 leave as a guarantee in return for money
    “pawn your grandfather's gold watch”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 empeño pawn
  2. 🔊 peón pawn
  3. 🔊 pignorar to pawn
  4. 🔊 empeñar to pawn, to hock (sell something to a pawn shop)

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