pawning

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noun

The act by which something is pawned.

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Meanings

nounpawning (plural pawnings)

plural pawnings

  1. The act by which something is pawned.

    Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless, she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her – that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets, more and always more horrors.

    1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter V, in The Good Soldier […], Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1972 (1982 printing), →ISBN, part I, page 63
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of pawn

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
hookytruancy

Origin

From pawn + -ing.

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Translations

Spanish empeñamiento
  • empeñamientonoun
Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

“pawning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pawning. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pawning,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pawning.

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