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  • n  a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security

  • For years the pawnbroker's traditional three gold balls have been the symbol of the down-and-outer.
  • Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms inspectors are visiting Virginia's 2,200-plus gun dealers and pawnbrokers, searching records for sales of rifles that fire the .
  • General William Booth, its founder, was a rebela onetime pawnbroker's apprentice and Methodist preacher who abandoned the class-conscious churches of his day to preach salvation .

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