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pawned

adjective as in deposited

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Fou avoided becoming a pawn in cold war propaganda, but his politically charged status cannot have helped his career.

The stores run the gamut from publicly traded pawn companies, such as EZCorp and FirstCash, to small mom-and-pop operations.

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Many of its responsibilities were subsequently pawned off onto the military.

Matt and Meredith had pawned her off on Natalie Morales and the segment had run short.

With Into the Wild, I pawned off that decision on the McCandless family.

I pawned all our jewellery, and as we had a great many valuable things, I got several thousand francs.

Lastly the pawner is liable for any deficiency after the sale of the thing pawned, unless released by statute.

But it was necessary to pay, and in order not to ask you for money, she sold her horses and her shawls, and pawned her jewels.

Anyway there remains the problem of who pawned the Withers emeralds and diamonds this afternoon.

That struck me at once, remembering that the jewels were pawned in Baltimore by a man who wore a moustache.

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

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