pawn
/pɔn/ v [T] (TRADE FOR MONEY)Definition
› to leave a possession with someone in order to borrow money from that person, with the understanding that if you do not pay it back within the agreed time, the person can keep your possession and sell it
(Definition of pawn v (TRADE FOR MONEY) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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