A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The word pawn is derived from the Latin pignus, for pledge, and the items having been pawned to the broker are themselves called pledges or pawns, or simply the collateral.

If an item is pawned for a loan, within a certain contractual period of time the pawner may purchase it back for the amount of the loan plus some agreed-upon amount for interest. The amount of time, and rate of interest, is governed by law or by the pawnbroker's policies. If the loan is not paid (or extended, if applicable) within the time period, the pawned item will be offered for sale by the pawnbroker/secondhand dealer. 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. The pawnbroker/secondhand dealer also sells items that have been sold outright by customers to the pawnbroker or secondhand dealer.

Noun

pawn (plural pawns)

1. (chess) The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
2. (colloquial) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end, usually not the end that individual would prefer.

   Though a pawn of the gods, her departure is the precipitating cause of the Trojan War.

• Translingual: ♙, ♟
• Arabic: جندي (ar) (júndiy)
• Armenian: զինվոր (hy) (zinvor)
• Bosnian: pješak (bs) m., pion (bs) m.
• Breton: pezh gwerin m.
• Bulgarian: пешка (bg) (péška) f.
• Catalan: peó (ca) m.
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兵 (cmn) (bīng)

• Croatian: pješak (hr) m.
• Czech: pěšec (cs) m.
• Danish: bonde (da) c.
• Dutch: pion (nl) m.
• Esperanto: peono (eo)
• Estonian: ettur (et)
• Finnish: sotilas (fi)
• French: pion (fr) m.
• Georgian: პაიკი (ka) (paiki)
• German: Bauer (de) m.
• Greek: πιόνι (el) (pióni) n., στρατιώτης (el) (stratiótis) m.
• Hebrew: חייל (he) (chayal) m.

• Hungarian: gyalog (hu), (less formal) paraszt (hu)
• Indonesian: bidak (id), pion (id)
• Irish: ceithearnach (ga) m., fichillín (ga) m.
• Italian: pedone (it) m., pedina (it) f.
• Japanese: ポーン (ja) (pōn)
• Khmer: ត្រី (km) (trəy)
• Korean: 폰 (ko) (pon), 졸 (ko) (jol) (Oriental chess)
• Norwegian: bonde (no) m.
• Persian: سرباز (fa) (sarbâz)
• Polish: pion (pl) m., pionek (pl) m.
• Portuguese: peão (pt) m.
• Romanian: pion (ro) m.
• Russian: пешка (ru) (péška) f.
• Serbian:

  Cyrillic: пешак m., пион m.

  Roman: pešak m., pion m.

• Slovak: pešiak (sk) m.
• Slovene: kmet (sl) m.
• Spanish: peón (es) m.
• Swedish: bonde (sv) c.
• Thai: เบี้ย (th)
• Turkish: piyon (tr)

• Dutch: pion m., kleine man m.
• Finnish: pelinappula (fi)
• French: pion (fr) m.
• German: Bauer m. (rarely)
• Greek: πιόνι (el) (pióni) n., υποχείριο (el) (ypocheírio) n., ενεργούμενο (el) (energoúmeno) n.
• Italian: pedina (it) f.
• Norwegian: brikke (no) m.

• Polish: pionek (pl) m.
• Portuguese: peão (pt) m.
• Russian: пешка (ru) (péška) f.
• Spanish: peón (es) m.
• Swedish: bonde (sv) c.
• Turkish: piyon (tr), oyuncak (tr)

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