Definitions for pawnbroking

pawnbroking pawn·bro·king

Spelling: [pawn-broh-king]
IPA: /ˈpɔnˌbroʊ kɪŋ/

Pawnbroking is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 592 anagrams from letters in pawnbroking (abgiknnoprw).

Definitions for pawnbroking

noun

  1. the business of a pawnbroker.

Origin of pawnbroking

First recorded in 1805-15; pawnbrok(er) + -ing1

Examples for pawnbroking

pawnbroking was an important part of a booksellers business.

pawnbroking establishments were finally authorized by Leo X., who threatened excommunication of those who wrote against them.

pawnbroking and money-lending on the part of Jews are hedged about by a series of oppressive regulations.

No details were given, but the police were asked to look out for the watch and chain in pawnbroking establishments and elsewhere.

One of the first buildings that one notices is the Mont de Pit, the chief of the Paris pawnbroking establishments.

There was but one window in the little "rickle of brick" which their pawnbroking Jew landlord called a "commodious cottage."

Later, the Hpital-Gnral was authorized to open the first mont-de-pit, or pawnbroking establishment, in France.

They will go on with their pettifogging and their pawnbroking, and that is enough reward for them.

Grissy—he's my friend—Grissy says pawnbroking is only a more vulgar form of banking.

She is the daughter of a second-hand bookseller called Norman, and I believe he combines selling books with pawnbroking.

Word Value for pawnbroking
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Words with friends

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