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pawning

pawning noun: the act by which something is pawned. Also the present participle and gerund of pawn.

Noun

pawning (plural pawnings)

  1. The act by which something is pawned.
    • Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless, she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her – that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets, more and always more horrors.1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter V, in The Good Soldier […], Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1972 (1982 printing), →ISBN, part I, page 63

Also used as

pawning is also the present participle and gerund of pawn.

Forms of pawning

pluralpawnings

Origin of pawning

From pawn + -ing.

Phrases with pawning

Questions about pawning

What does pawning mean?
Pawning means the act by which something is pawned.
What part of speech is pawning?
Pawning is a noun.
What is the plural of pawning?
The plural of pawning is pawnings.

Words near pawning in the dictionary

  1. pawnes
  2. pawnest
  3. pawneth
  4. pawnie
  5. pawnies
  6. pawning
  7. pawning off
  8. pawning off as
  9. pawnings
  10. pawnless
  11. pawnlessness

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