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Definition of Pawn
1. Noun. An article deposited as security.
2. Verb. Leave as a guarantee in return for money. "Pawn your grandfather's gold watch"
Category relationships: Commerce, Commercialism, Mercantilism
Generic synonyms: Charge, Consign
Derivative terms: Hock
3. Noun. A person used by another to gain an end.
4. Noun. (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank.
5. Noun. Borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan.
Definition of Pawn
1. n. See Pan, the masticatory.
2. n. A man or piece of the lowest rank.
3. n. Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge,
4. v. t. To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.
Definition of Pawn
1. to give as security for something borrowed [v -ED, -ING, -S] : PAWNABLE [adj]
Medical Definition of Pawn
1. Mutant of Paramoecium that, like the chess piece, can only move forward and is unable to reverse to escape noxious stimuli. Defect is apparently in the voltage sensitive calcium channel of the ciliary membrane. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pawn
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