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pawn

noun as in security for a loan

noun as in person who is a fool

verb as in give as security for a loan

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He is a possible solution to the Nationals’ need for middle-of-the-order offense — and not just another pawn in Pittsburgh’s low-cost rebuild.

Many pawn businesses are multigenerational not only in ownership but in customers.

From Vox

Perry Lewin has been in the pawn industry for 28 years, but he’s never quite seen a year like this one.

From Vox

Continuing to prop him up in the media as a political pawn leaves them unable to do so.

Some scientists fear that the vaccine could become a pawn in American election politics and have cautioned against distributing an untested injection.

They were getting more imaginative,” a pawn shop owner thinks of his addict customers in “Back of Beyond.

“Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.

Barely Legal Pawn stars the duo as unscrupulous, possibly deranged pawnshop employees.

With Suzanne, Vee saw someone who could be a pawn in her chess game.

Yet, she is still very much a pawn in the system—her body is actively sold to the highest bidder.

She never dreamed that she herself was a pawn in the game that was intended to bring Nana Sahib to Delhi.

Rat this pawn of the Eye may have been, but even a cornered rat will fight with the courage of a lion.

Afterwards she married one of the most noted scamps in Paris, who wanted a pretty wife as a pawn in some game of his.

To be checkmated by an 'errant' pawn in the very middle of the board is a most ignominious way of losing the game.

In default of the usual bazaars OLeary had returned with the spoils of half a dozen pawn-shops.

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On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pawn, such as: assurance, bond, collateral, earnest, forfeit, and gage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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