transcription, транскрипция: [ pɔ:n ]
( 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