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pawnings

pawnings is the plural of pawning.

Meaning of pawning

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

Questions about pawnings

What is pawnings the plural of?
Pawnings is the plural of pawning.

Words near pawnings in the dictionary

  1. pawnie
  2. pawnies
  3. pawning
  4. pawning off
  5. pawning off as
  6. pawnings
  7. pawnless
  8. pawnlessness
  9. pawnlike
  10. pawnor
  11. pawnors

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