Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - pawn
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Pawn
pawn
(pawns, pawning, pawned) 1. 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. He is contemplating pawning his watch. VERB: V n 2. In chess, a pawn is the smallest and least valuable playing piece. Each player has eight pawns at the start of the game. N-COUNT 3. If you say that someone is using you as a pawn, you mean that they are using you for their own advantage. It looks as though he is being used as a political pawn by the President... N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N in n
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English pown, from Anglo-French peoun, paun, from Medieval Latin pedon-, pedo foot soldier, from Latin ped-, pes foot — more at foot Date: 14th century 1. one of the chessmen of least value having the power to move only forward ordinarily one square at a time, to capture only diagonally forward, and to be promoted to any piece except a king upon reaching the eighth rank 2. one that can be used to further the purposes of another II. noun Etymology: Middle English paun, from Middle French dialect (Walloon, Flanders) pan Date: 15th century 1. a. something delivered to or deposited with another as security for a loan b. hostage 2. the state of being pledged 3. something used as a pledge ; guaranty 4. the act of ~ing III. transitive verb Date: 1570 to deposit in pledge or as security especially in exchange for money • ~er also ~or noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. n. 1 Chess a piece of the smallest size and value. 2 a person used by others for their own purposes. Etymology: ME f. AF poun, OF peon f. med.L pedo -onis foot-soldier f. L pes pedis foot: cf. PEON 2. v. & n. --v.tr. 1 deposit an object, esp. with a pawnbroker, as security for money lent. 2 pledge or wager (one's life, honour, word, etc.). --n. 1 an object left as security for money etc. lent. 2 anything or any person left with another as security etc. Phrases and idioms in (or at) pawn (of an object etc.) held as security. Etymology: ME f. OF pan, pand, pant, pledge, security f. WG ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. шахм. пешка passed (single, double) pawn —- проходная (изолированная, сдвоенная) пешка 2. пешка, орудие в чьих-то руках men were pawns in his hands —- люди были пешками в его руках 3. залог, заклад at (in) pawn —- в закладе, заложенный his TV-set is in pawn —- он заложил телевизор to give in pawn —- отдавать в заклад 4. заложник to leave behind for pawns —- оставить в заложниках 5. поручительство, обязательство the pawn to give the country freedom and enlightment —- обещание дать стране свободу и просвещение 6. закладывать, отдавать в залог to pawn a watch —- заложить часы 7. ручаться to pawn one's liffe (one's honour) —- ручаться жизнью (честью) I'll pawn my life for her —- я ручаюсь за нее жизнью 8. разг. сбежать, предоставив другим платить по счету he pawned them off on me —- он сбежал, предоставив мне платить за них 9. уст. колоннада, пассаж, крытая галерея с магазинами и прилавками для товаров ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I noun chess пешка also fig. II 1. noun залог, заклад; - in pawn - at pawn 2. v. 1) закладывать, отдавать в залог 2) ручаться; - pawn ones word - pawn ones life PAWN ones life ручаться жизнью PAWN ones word давать слово; ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n 1 one of the eight smallest and least valuable pieces in the game of chess 2 someone who is used by a more powerful person or group + in (We're just pawns in the director's power game.) ~2 v to leave something valuable with a pawnbroker in order to borrow money from them ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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