Both Uses of
pawn shop
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She looked at him, she looked around them-there was a filthy mattress hanging on somebody's window sill, a pawnshop across the street, a garbage pail at the stoop beside them-one did not ask such a question in such a place, she did not know what it meant, and she answered, "I guess I ….†
Chpt 2.2 *
- From behind the rotted posts of what had once been a corner vegetable stand, Dagny glanced furtively back at the street: the rare lamp posts broke the street into separate islands, she could see a pawnshop in the first patch of light, a saloon in the next, a church in the farthest, and black gaps between them; the sidewalks were deserted; it was hard to tell, but the street seemed empty.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(pawn shop) a shop that offers loans to people who use their personal property as collateraleditor's notes: At a pawn shop, collateral refers to personal property of the borrower that that is left at the pawn shop. If the loan isn't repaid with interest, the pawn shop keeps (and can sell) the property. Otherwise, it is returned to the borrower.