ALL meanings of pawn
pawn
P p - verb with object pawn to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch. 1
- verb with object pawn to pledge; stake; risk: to pawn one's life. 1
- noun pawn Chess. one of eight men of one color and of the lowest value, usually moved one square at a time vertically and capturing diagonally. 1
- noun pawn someone who is used or manipulated to further another person's purposes. 1
- noun pawn chess piece 1
- noun pawn unimportant person 1
- transitive verb pawn exchange for a loan 1
- verb pawn If you pawn something that you own, you leave it with a pawnbroker, who gives you money for it and who can sell it if you do not pay back the money before a certain time. 0
- countable noun pawn In chess, a pawn is the smallest and least valuable playing piece. Each player has eight pawns at the start of the game. 0
- countable noun pawn If you say that someone is using you as a pawn, you mean that they are using you for their own advantage. 0
- verb pawn to deposit (an article) as security for the repayment of a loan, esp from a pawnbroker 0
- verb pawn to stake 0
- noun pawn an article deposited as security 0
- noun pawn the condition of being so deposited (esp in the phrase in pawn) 0
- noun pawn a person or thing that is held as a security, esp a hostage 0
- noun pawn the act of pawning 0
- noun pawn a chessman of the lowest theoretical value, limited to forward moves of one square at a time with the option of two squares on its initial move: it captures with a diagonal move only 0
- noun pawn a person, group, etc, manipulated by another 0
- noun pawn anything given as security, as for a debt, performance of an action, etc.; pledge; guaranty 0
- noun pawn a hostage 0
- noun pawn the state of being pledged 0
- verb transitive pawn to give as security; put in pawn 0
- verb transitive pawn to stake, wager, or risk 0
- noun pawn a chessman of the lowest value: it can be moved only forward and one square at a time (or two squares on its first move) 0
- noun pawn a person used to advance another's purposes 0