pawnbroker's shop

1. 1.

   a shop where loans are made with personal property as security

   Synonymspawnshoploan office

   Broadershop

Questions about pawnbroker's shop

What does pawnbroker's shop mean?

pawnbroker's shop means "a shop where loans are made with personal property as security".

What is another word for pawnbroker's shop?

Close synonyms include pawnshop, loan office. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pawnbroker's shop a common word?

pawnbroker's shop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.