[ noun ] a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security <noun.person>
Pawnbroker \Pawn"bro`ker\, n. One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
Wayne Eugene Ritter, 33, executed in Alabama's electric chair on Aug. 28 for his part in the 1977 murder-robbery of a pawnbroker.
The Park Avenue pawnbroker remains the "poor man's bank" Mason envisioned, even though greater profit could be found in larger loans.
The pawnbroker holds the car and the vehicle's ownership documents so that he can sell it if the customer doesn't reclaim the vehicle.
But can EZCorp convince Wall Street that what the world needs now is another publicly traded pawnbroker?
As the parlour disappears into the pawnbroker's Mrs Devlin's frail sanity starts to disintegrate too. At her best, Clare Boylan combines a wicked sense of humour with a talent for deadly accurate imagery.