Crossword-Solution: PAWNBROKER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pawnbroker | n. | One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “PAWNBROKER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Insurance dealer to a chess player? | 1 answer |
| Seller of small chess pieces? | 1 answer |
| Seller of chess pieces? | 1 answer |
| Rod Steiger film with The | 1 answer |
| Purveyor of chessmen? | 1 answer |
| One making loans | 1 answer |
| Occupation with an unsavory reputation | 1 answer |
| Moonlighting chess player? | 1 answer |
| Lender for a blender | 1 answer |
| Hockshop proprietor | 1 answer |
| He sells chess pieces? | 1 answer |
| HOCKSHOP owner | 1 answer |
| Financier of last resort | 1 answer |
| Business man of a sort. | 2 answers |
| Trader of a sort. | 2 answers |
| Lender | 11 answers |
| Uncle | 29 answers |
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Sentences with PAWNBROKER (5)
The object of this excellent Charity is—as all serious people know—to rescue unredeemed fathers’ trousers from the pawnbroker, and to prevent their resumption, on the part of the irreclaimable parent, by abridging them immediately to suit the proportions of the innocent son.
The son, who was not an eminently practical man, underwent long hours of misery in trying to settle up her affairs, and finally in a moment of extreme dejection sold his entire inheritance in a lump to a pawnbroker (reserving for himself a few rings and trinkets) for the modest sum of 250 dollars specie.
She wandered down South Clark street, flaring with purple-white arc-lights, and looked in at its windows that displayed a pawnbroker's glittering wares, or, just next door, a flat-topped stove over which a white-capped magician whose face smacked of the galley, performed deft tricks with a pancake turner.
For five shillings and the pawn-ticket on a suit he was able to get from a pawnbroker a frock coat which fitted him fairly well.
Surely on them the spirit of death and decay had descended; I had no education to dread here: should I not have a chance of seeing nature? Alas! a pawnbroker could not have been more practical and commonplace, for this was what the kneeling woman said to the woman upright—this and nothing more: ‘Eh, what extravagance!’ O nineteenth century, wonderful art thou indeed—wonderful, but wearisome in thy stale and deadly uniformity.
Quotes with PAWNBROKER (3)
The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.
My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably learned to count by putting pawn tickets in numerical order in the back room of the shop.
I got the Pawnbroker of the Year award. They said I did more for the pawn business in one year than their media team, in 30 years, has been able to do.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1957–2017).