pawnbroker

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A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed
{n} one who lends money upon goods
{i} moneylender who takes property as security deposit
A pawnbroker is a person who lends people money. People give the pawnbroker something they own, which can be sold if they do not pay back the money before a certain time. someone whose business is to lend people money in exchange for valuable objects. If the money is not paid back, the pawnbroker can sell the object
a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security
Any person whose business or occupation includes the taking or receiving, by way of pledge or pawn, of any firearm as security for the payment or repayment of money
A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security - which may be sold if not redeemed
The three golden balls The Lombards were the first money-lenders in England, and those who borrowed money of them deposited some security or pawn The Medici family, whose arms were three gilded pills, in allusion to their profession of medicine, were the richest merchants of Florence, and greatest money-lenders (See Balls ) Roscoe, in his Life of Lorenzo de Medici, gives a different solution He says that Averardo de' Medici, a commander under Charlemagne, slew the giant Mugello, whose club he bore as a trophy This club or mace had three iron balls, which the family adopted as their device Pawn is the Latin pign[us] (a pawn or pledge)
One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping

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