All 5 Uses

pawn shop
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Invisible Man, by Ellison
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THE district offices were located in a converted church structure, the main floor of which was occupied by a pawn shop, its window crammed with loot that gleamed dully in the darkened street.†
Chpt 17 *

pawn shop = a shop that offers loans to individuals who use their personal property as collateral
You wait till we tackle one of these pawnshops.†
Chpt 25

pawnshops = shops that offer loans to individuals who use their personal property as collateral
"You wahn know who started it?" a man holding a pair of binoculars called from the window of a pawnshop.†
Chpt 25

pawnshop = a shop that offers loans to individuals who use their personal property as collateral
It was suicide, without guns it was suicide, and not even the pawnshops here had guns for sale; and yet I knew with a shattering dread that the uproar which for the moment marked primarily the crash of men against things-against stores, markets-could swiftly become the crash of men against men and with most of the guns and numbers on the other side.†
Chpt 25

pawnshops = shops that offer loans to individuals who use their personal property as collateral
Cursing Jack and the Brotherhood I moved around a steel grill torn from the front of a pawnshop, seeing the troopers galloping back and the riders lifting the horses to charge again, grim and skillful in white steel helmets, and the charge beginning.†
Chpt 25

pawnshop = a shop that offers loans to individuals who use their personal property as collateral

Definitions:

(1) (pawn shop)
a shop that either offers loans to individuals who use their personal property as collateral, or that purchases the personal property outright

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 (the property an sells it to someone else. Otherwise, the property is returned to the borrower.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)