Usually means: Lending money secured by items.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word pawnbroking:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. pawnbroking: Merriam-Webster
  2. pawnbroking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pawnbroking: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pawnbroking: Wordnik
  5. pawnbroking: Wiktionary
  6. pawnbroking: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Pawnbroking, pawnbroking: Dictionary.com
  8. Pawnbroking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Pawnbroking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. pawnbroking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Pawnbroking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. pawnbroking: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Pawnbroking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pawnbroking: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. pawnbroking: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pawnbroking: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pawnbroking)

noun:  The business of a pawnbroker; advancing loans against pledges of household goods or personal possessions, and selling those pledges that are not redeemed.

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