Word Meanings - PAWNBROKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

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• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• LENDING
  1. The act of one who lends. 2. That which is lent or furnished.
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• DEPOSITARY
  One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent. (more info) 1. One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. I . . . made you my guardians,
• DEPOSITION
  The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• LEND
  1. To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow. Give me that ring. I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power To give it from me. Shak. 2. To
• SECURITY
  1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
• KEEP
  k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
• PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
  One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• LENDES
  See CHAUCER
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• PLEDGELESS
  Having no pledge.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• CALENDS
  The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
• SPLENDIFEROUS
  Splendor-bearing; splendid. Bale . "A splendiferous woman." Haliburton.
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• BLEND
  akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, 1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse;
• SPLENDOR
  1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak. 3. Brilliancy;
• CALENDULIN
  A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• KALENDAR
  See CALENDAR