pawning
present participle ofpawn
| 单词 | pawning |
| 释义 | pawning present participle ofpawn pawn verb[T] uk/pɔːn/us/pɑːn/toleaveapossessionwith apawnbroker, who gives youmoneyfor it and cansellit if themoneyis notpaidback within acertaintime: Of allitemspawned,jewelleryis the mostcommon. Synonym hockinformal Buying & selling - general words
Examplesofpawningpawning In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Pawninghad made possible stable, long-term use-rights transfers. From theCambridge English Corpus The absence of information onpawningbefore the seventeenth century makes such a discussion premature, if not impossible. From theCambridge English Corpus The issuing of this decree at that date implies that suchpawningwas still a newish practice in the 1760s. From theCambridge English Corpus Kinship strategies certainly affected the practice ofpawning. From theCambridge English Corpus In contrast topawning, where security was provided beforehand, panyarring involved the seizure of goods or people to force payment or their sale to compensate the creditor. From theCambridge English Corpus Hubbell reports both thepawningand sale of offspring. From theCambridge English Corpus Sometimes such structures seem to have provided security for credit without resort topawning, even though pawnship perhaps existed in local economies supplying the export trade. From theCambridge English Corpus Pawningwas discussed by the committee, however. From theCambridge English Corpus Landpawningwas a syncretistic response to colonial efforts to promote freehold tenure, seen as essential to cash cropping. From theCambridge English Corpus Pawningdid not always involve people. From theCambridge English Corpus Galvan's concept of ' institutional syncretism ' appears most clearly in his presentation of landpawning. From theCambridge English Corpus I never heard of anybodypawningin the expectation of gain; they have to pay for somebody to take care of something. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is going to be made impossible for poor people to borrow money at all, except bypawningor pledging their household goods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There seems to be in certain places some amount ofpawning. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I gather from the police that there is no evidence of any increase inpawningat the pawnshops round about dog-racing centres. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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