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Pawnbroker meaning
A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed.
Example sentences (19)
Once the pawnbroker determines the item is genuine and not likely stolen, and that it is marketable, the pawnbroker offers the customer an amount for it.
Unlike other lenders, the pawnbroker does not report the defaulted loan on the customer's credit report, since the pawnbroker has physical possession of the item and may recoup the loan value through outright sale of the item.
He overhears Peter on the call to the pawnbroker Peter confesses to Stephen that he pawned the watch but it has been sold.
Coulson was also ordered to attend a thinking skills programme for 19 days and the bench ordered he pay the pawnbroker £1,390, which he will repay at a rate of £20 a month.
If the customer cannot pay the money back and the loan was more than £100, they will be notified that the pawnbroker intends to sell the item.
Tightening credit and regulatory conditions combined with a class action payout has seen pawnbroker and payday lender Cash Converters admit it is headed for a likely loss for the last financial year.
Elizabeth Street in Melbourne's CBD in 1933, captured in a crime scene photo after the murder of pawnbroker Maurice Langley.
After their wedding, the couple went to live above a pawnbroker's shop at 1 Commercial Road, Whitechapel.
A pawnbroker can also be a charity.
A scene in Paolo Uccello's Corpus Domini predella (c. 1465-1468), set in a Jewish pawnbroker's home.
However, if a customer offers an extremely low price the pawnbroker may turn down the offer, because this suggests that the item may either be counterfeit or stolen.
Pawnbroker in Reseda, CA Inventory management Pawnshops have to be careful to manage how many new items they accept as pawns: either too little inventory or too much is bad.
Pawnbroker's sign in Edinburgh Scotland The pawnbrokers' symbol is three spheres suspended from a bar.
Provident Loan Society of New York, a charitable pawnbroker Crusaders, predominantly in France, brokered their land holdings to monasteries and diocese for funds to supply, outfit, and transport their armies to the Holy Land.
She trails him to the pawn shop and finds out from the pawnbroker that he traded the coat for a gun he had pawned earlier.
The amount of time, and rate of interest, is governed by law or by the pawnbroker's policies.
The pawnbroker also sells items that have been sold outright to them by customers.
The pawnbroker assesses an item for its condition and marketability by testing the item and examining it for flaws, scratches or other damage.
The pawnbroker assumes the risk that an item might have been stolen.