pawnbroker

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You can always head to your local pawnbroker or a merchant who specializes in coins or precious metals.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

A pawnbroker is an individual person or shop which offers secured loans against people's personal possessions - most often items like electronics or jewellery.

From BBC • May 13, 2022

And yet, Raskolnikov remains confused about his own motives: Does he kill the old pawnbroker to appropriate her valuables for himself or for others?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2021

In practice, according to the California attorney general’s office, this means any loan from a bank, savings and loan, credit union, finance corporation or even a pawnbroker is exempt from the usury law.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2021

“Please take care of them,” Nali said to the pawnbroker.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young