A pawnshop business in Munich, Germany in 2014 A pawnbroker in Oulu, Finland in 2009 A London shop displays the traditional pawnbroker's sign A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The items having been pawned to the broker are themselves called pledges or pawns, or simply the collat
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