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pawnshop
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pawnshop has 1 sense
- pawnshop(n = noun.artifact) loan office, pawnbroker's shop - a shop where loans are made with personal property as security; Array is a kind of shop, store
ROGET THESAURUS
pawnshop
Lending
N lending, loan, advance, accommodation, feneration, mortgage, second mortgage, home loan, investment, note, bond, commercial paper, mont de piete, pawnshop, my uncle's, lender, pawnbroker, money lender, usurer, loan shark, loaner (of item loaned), lending, lent, unborrowed &c (borrowed), in advance, on loan, on security.
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