pawnbroker
(ˈpɔːnˌbrəʊkə(r))
[f. pawn n.2 + broker 2.]
One engaged in the business of lending money upon interest on the security of articles of personal property pawned or pledged.
| 1687 Lond. Gaz. No. 2305/3 Encouragement and Connivence..from Petty-Tradesmen, Pawn-Brokers, and others. 1730 Fielding Author's Farce i. iv, Fetch my other hat hither. Carry it to the pawn-broker's. 1786 Ir. Act 26 Geo. III, c. 43 title, An Act to establish the Business of a Pawnbroker. 1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. v. 86 All the knives and scissors were at the pawnbroker's. |
Hence (
nonce-wds.)
ˈpawnˌbrokerage,
ˈpawnˌbrokering, the business of a pawnbroker, pawnbroking;
ˈpawnˌbrokeress, a female pawnbroker;
ˈpawnˌbrokery, (
a) a pawnbroking establishment, (
b) pawnbroking.
| 1896 Century Mag. Feb. 540 Every Jew..must have..a notarial authorization for *pawnbrokerage. |
| 1833 Lamb Let. Moxon Lett. 1888 II. 292, I..wrote for the *Pawn⁓brokeress's album. |
| 1893 N. & Q. 8th Ser. III. 4/1 Employed in various *pawnbrokering establishments. |
| 1821 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XCIV. 493 Madame Necker..founded a charitable *pawnbrokery at Paris. 1833 New Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 84 Pawnbrokery is..a rational proceeding, for the pledge always retains the value for which it is engaged. |