How To Use Pawnbroker In A Sentence
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He said that the credit union had seen an end of the loan shark and the pawnbroker, who for far too long, had gripped people in poverty.
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And pawnbrokers, those eager harbingers of depression, are on the rebound.
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There were 47 pawnbrokers in the Borough, 38 of whom dealt in gold and silver plate, and 55 persons carried on business as watchmakers.
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Unable to get cheap credit on the high street, some of these people fall into the hands of pawnbrokers, impaired credit lenders and loan sharks.
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While the typical cost of paying off a £100 loan over 12 months was £112 if taken from a credit union, this rose to £142 for a pawnbroker and £173 for a rent-to-own loan.
Poorer families 'paying double by renting household goods'
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The pawnbroker in turn resold the gold to a foundry, where it was recycled.
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In the opening lines, the reader is thrust straight into the clammy, dark, bitter atmosphere of a pawnbroker's on Christmas Day, run by a man who immediately admits that he is no angel.
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Caesar than those in the antique shops and the pawnbrokers ', but which drew learned commentaries from the German.
Caesar or Nothing
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The beadle is the only sober man in the composition except the pawnbroker, and he is mightily indifferent to the orphan-child crying beside its parent's coffin.
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
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At 4.30 they're outside a pawnbroker's, looking at rings.
Times, Sunday Times
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With some products becoming outdated within six months, clients are reluctant to reclaim these items, resulting in lost revenue for the pawnbrokers.
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People either saved up for major purchases or did without banks and relied on pawnbrokers, loan sharks and store credit instead.
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The prize possession of a warm winter coat was taken down to the pawnbroker and left as security until the next wage came in.
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At 4.30 they're outside a pawnbroker's, looking at rings.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the pawnbroker gets no price, then the pawnbroker can look at other options.
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`Actually, signor, come to think of it, I know a pawnbroker called Buscotti who might be able to help.
A SEASON IN HELL
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The crowd broke into a supermarket, off-licence and pawnbroker's and then set fire to the library.
A fire lit in Tottenham that burned Manchester: the rioters' story
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The youngest of four children born to a Jewish pawnbroker and his wife, Maxine Kumin studied history and literature at Radcliffe, where, in 1945, she met Victor Kumin, a Harvard graduate on furlough from the Army.
The Art of Living
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Among the positions on offer: a pawnbroker's assistant at $17,000 per year and a truck driver at $524 per week.
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Today's pawnbrokers operate within well-defined financial regulations.
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Signs with three balls hang outside pawnbrokers' shops.
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THE number of tradesmen turning to Britain's biggest pawnbroker for a loan has soared as banks snub small businesses.
The Sun
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At that time, pawnbrokers purposely lowered the amount of money poor people received for pledges and shortened the time limit required to redeem their receipts.
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BRITAIN'S largest pawnbroker is planning to open 30 new stores during the next three years.
The Sun
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And the sneering that accompanies every use of the word pawnbroker is palpable.
Beachwood Reporter
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The borrower retains ownership of the pledge except on default on the loan, and then the pawnbroker has the opportunity to sell those goods.
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A takeover would be difficult to orchestrate without the backing of the pawnbroker's lenders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Signs with three balls hang outside pawnbrokers' shops.
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In a city boasting the lowest per capita income in Georgia, where one in three children live in abject poverty, pawnbrokers are as numerous as traffic lights.
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My intention, though against the law, was to take it to the pawnbrokers in exchange for money so as to buy myself some more time before starving to death.
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In less than a week, Cohen went from being a no-name pawnbroker running for state office to winning the Democratic lieutenant governor primary to defending himself from serious accusations of domestic battery.
News
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It was taken by sleight of hand and then sold to a pawnbroker.
The Sun
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The safekeeping of property given to the pawnbroker is the pawnbroker's responsibility;
Persfin
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BRITAIN'S biggest pawnbroker has ousted its chief executive after blaming the plunge in the gold price for a sudden drop in profits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Except the pawnbroker's, the distiller's, and the undertaker's, the houses are literally ruins; but these doorkeepers to Famine, Disease, and Death, living by the calamities of others, are in a flourishing state.
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A completely different explanation comes from the old pawnbroker's sign with three brass balls.
Times, Sunday Times
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I guess I'll be wanted," the pawnbroker observed, as he jerked open his shirt, tearing out the four buttons in his impetuousness and showing a Colt's .44 automatic, strapped in its holster against the bare skin of his side under his left arm, the butt of the weapon most readily accessible to any hasty dip of his right hand.
CHAPTER XV
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Money borrowed from a pawnbroker did not have to be repaid for fifteen months.
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Mo's ultimate destination is the home of his girlfriend Jill (Stacey Travis), but first he visits Alvy (Mark Northover), a kind of pawnbroker to whom Mo wants to sell various odds and ends "borrowed" from work.
Home Theater Forum
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A takeover would be difficult to orchestrate without the backing of the pawnbroker's lenders.
Times, Sunday Times
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The word mons which literally means an accumulation of wealth or money, now called capital, seems to have been a generic term used in the fifteenth century to signify lending-houses in general; and hence the montes pietatis or monti di pietà were a species of charitable lending-establishments not, perhaps, unlike our modern pawnbrokers 'establishments, but possessing, of course, none of the sinister features of the latter.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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The pawnbroker was a gentleman of Jewish persuasion, and possessed a nose like the beak of an eagle.
My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.
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In the past, when cash was scarce, spending patterns told us who had real cash as opposed to those who were on speaking terms with a pawnbroker.
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I come hup jest when the perleeceman and the pawnbroker were a-gripping yer.
Sue, A Little Heroine
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Policemen need to be out there checking on pawnbrokers and second-hand dealers, because they know who is fencing the goods.
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The first, whether from a friend or from a pawnbroker, is extremely distasteful; the second provides, for some people, a certain masochistic kick; the third is definitely enjoyable, but can seldom be done in a hurry.
Try Anything Twice
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I once had a desk in an office that overlooked a pawnbroker.
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`Actually, signor, come to think of it, I know a pawnbroker called Buscotti who might be able to help.
A SEASON IN HELL
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Thus interest rate ceilings are not an effective means of controlling any threat of ‘monopoly’ power by pawnbrokers.
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Of course, it is clear that the pawnbroker made money out of the poor, but they provided a service where none existed and helped people out in the short term.
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It is thought they plan to keep the majority of the pawnbroker's 183 stores and 900 employees.
Times, Sunday Times
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Britain's largest pawnbroker is picking over the remains of its stricken rival to find new locations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Premises visited included 25 traditional jewellers, 34 gift shops, two department stores, eight clothes stores and three pawnbrokers.
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I had the hint from Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a formidable man - a man who might play a deep game.
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His first thought was that Lady Mallinger, who had a strictly Protestant taste for such Catholic spoils, might like to have these missal-clasps turned into a bracelet: then his eyes traveled over the other contents of the window, and he saw that the shop was that kind of pawnbroker's where the lead is given to jewelry, lace and all equivocal objects introduced as _bric-à - brac_.
Daniel Deronda
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There were 47 pawnbrokers in the Borough, 38 of whom dealt in gold and silver plate, and 55 persons carried on business as watchmakers.
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It is thought they plan to keep the majority of the pawnbroker's 183 stores and 900 employees.
Times, Sunday Times
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He should know, being a pawnbroker, moneylender, and devil masquerading as human.
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a kind of supernal visitant, vanishing anon into nothingness, or only a pawnbroker's duplicate.
The Lovels of Arden
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Figures from the National Consumer Council show that one person in five is forced to borrow from pawnbrokers, cheque cashers or loan sharks - at an average rate of 177 percent.
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A completely different explanation comes from the old pawnbroker's sign with three brass balls.
Times, Sunday Times
