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pawn Noun

— A pawn in the game of chess is a piece that can only move forward. Each player will get eight pawns.

pawn Verb

— If you pawn a valuable object, you offer it to a money-lender as security for a loan of money. When money is repaid, plus interest, the object(s) are said to be "redeemed". Queen Eleanor pawned the crown jewels of England.

pawn

— 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 — noun borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan — noun an article deposited as security — verb leave as a guarantee in return for money pawn your grandfather's gold watch — noun (= instrument) a person used by another to gain an end

Synonyms pawn synonyms

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pawn English » English

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Topics pawn topics

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Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Game

Chess

Conjugation pawn conjugation

How do you conjugate pawn?

pawn · verb

Examples pawn examples

How do I use pawn in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He had to pawn his watch.
The chess pieces are pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen, and king.
Tom had to pawn the watch his grandfather had given him.
The chess pieces are: king, queen, bishop, knight, rook and pawn.
I tilt my head. Not the pawn, but the knight?
He works at a pawn shop.
Tom had to pawn his guitar in order to pay his bills.
Tom works at a pawn shop.

Movie subtitles

Pawn Brokers.
I had to pawn it to get these clothes.
He is only a pawn in a much bigger game.
I am a pawn on a chessboard, I carry out a function.
Perhaps that's why the pawn ticket was in her name.
Let's hock it. Let's take it to that pawn shop on 3rd Avenue.
Give me the pawn ticket.
Pawn it.
All the more reason to pawn it.
You probably told him the same pack of stupid lies about me. that you tried to pawn off on Carol last night.
Suppose you find it tomorrow in a pawn shop.
Why should Niles pawn a cigarette case belonging to him?
A pawn moves this way, and a bishop this way and the queen moves.
Hope you find a friendly pawn shop.
A fellow went into this shop to pawn his watch.
We can steal his clothes and pawn them and get enough money to pay the bill.
One suit I'll wear there, the other suit I'll pawn to pay the interest.
She selects her victims from those desperately in need of money. Persuades them to pawn their insurance policies with her various accomplices and then kills them, by means of lycosa carnivora.
Suppose you find it tomorrow in a pawn shop. You can call a policeman, you're on file.
Pawn to king's bishop four.
Friendly pawn shop.
It's no use trying to pawn me off on him.
Knight to knight five, pawn takes knight, rook takes rook, queen to rook four, check.
I'd pay you now, only the only thing I had. when I jumped off was a wristwatch, and I had to pawn that to get clothes.
We have trouble with cheats and criminals in the pawn shop too.
This is a respectable pawn shop!
Outside the pawn shop.
I'll pawn something.
I want to pawn this.
In fact, tell the pawn shop people that she's here.
Okoma from the pawn shop.
I should see her before I go to the pawn shop.
He takes care of the pawn shop owner's daughter.
A pawn ticket.
Well, honey, what do you expect with a pawn ticket? Sable?
I want to pawn these. Just to pawn.

News and current affairs

It is in neither country's interest to be seen as the other's pawn.
In a hung parliament, Britain's ancient constitution would become a pawn among the parties as they haggle for a share of power.
For today's Arab world, a better metaphor might be a chessboard, from which the removal of even a pawn inevitably alters the relationships among all the other pieces.
But if they begin to perceive Google as a pawn of the US government, this sentiment could turn on a dime.
Or was Pakistan's military using Bin Laden as a pawn in its relations with the US?

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