Pawn most often refers to:
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Pawn (chess)
The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess. It may move one vacant square directly forward, it may move two vacant squares directly forward on its first move, and it may capture one square diagonally forward. ...
, the weakest and most numerous piece in the game
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Pawnbroker
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 ...
or pawnshop, a business that provides loans by taking personal property as collateral
Pawn may also refer to:
Places
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Pawn, Oregon, an historic forest community
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Pawn River, Burma
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Noatak Airport, International Civil Aviation Organization code PAWN
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Pawn'' (2013 film), an American film
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''The Pawn'' (film), a 1978 French film
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''Pawn'' (2020 film), a South Korean film
* ''
The Pawn'', a 1980s text adventure
* "Pawns", a song on the 2017 Paloma Faith album ''
The Architect''
Other uses
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Pawnship, debt bondage slavery
* Pawn, another name for a
pledge in certain jurisdictions
People with the surname
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Doris Pawn (1894–1988), an American actress of the silent film era
See also
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Pawn Stars (disambiguation)
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Porn (disambiguation)
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Prawn (disambiguation)
Prawns may refer to either of two groups of crustaceans:
*Dendrobranchiata, including genera such as ''Penaeus'', '' Sergestes'' and ''Acetes''
*More generally, it may be used for shrimp and prawns
Prawn may also refer to:
*Prawn, an extraterrest ...
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