Pawning

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is pawned.

    "Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless, she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her – that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets, more and always more horrors."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of pawn form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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debtfinancinghire purchasehookyinstallment plantouching

Example

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"When there were unexpected expenses in the household of me and my wife, we could not avoid pawning our belongings."

Etymology

From pawn + -ing.

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