pawning

present participle of pawn
as in depositing
to leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loan he pawned his antique watch in order to pay off his gambling debt

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  • Part of their jobs included depositing payments from the district court clerk’s office into the Bank of Labor.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Later on, water may have penetrated through cracks in the rock, depositing minerals to create the calcium sulfate veins and leopard spots.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Shein is far from the first online retailer to run into trouble with third-party vendors hocking controversial wares or flouting policy standards.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Pawning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pawning. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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