Pawn

Gujarati Meaning

મહોરું

આડ

ગીરો મૂકેલી જણસ

શેતરંજનું પ્યાદું

English Meaning

  1. Something given as security for a loan; a pledge or guaranty.
  2. The condition of being held as a pledge against the payment of a loan: jewels in pawn.
  3. A person serving as security; a hostage.
  4. The act of pawning.
  5. To give or deposit (personal property) as security for the payment of money borrowed.
  6. To risk; hazard: pawn one's honor.
  7. pawn off To dispose or get rid of deceptively: tried to pawn off the fake gemstone as a diamond.
  8. Games A chess piece of lowest value that may move forward one square at a time or two squares in the first move, capture other pieces only on a one-space diagonal forward move, and be promoted to any piece other than a king upon reaching the eighth rank.
  9. A person or an entity used to further the purposes of another: an underdeveloped nation that was a pawn in international politics.