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pawnbroker

noun as in moneylender

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The business of a pawnbroker is legally regulated by statute, and the states usually require him to get a license.

There was another booth of rather a singular kind—a temporary pawnbroker's, and who appeared to have a good brisk trade.

And here it was among razors and pistols and family Bibles in a pawnbroker's window.

I come hup jest when the perleeceman and the pawnbroker were a-gripping yer.

The pawnbroker looked from money to jewels and from jewels to money with an expression of curiously mingled grief and greed.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pawnbroker, such as: broker, lender, shylock, usurer, loan shark, and moneymonger.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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