0 any one of the eight least valuable pieces in the game of chess
The refugees are pawns in an international political dispute.
1 left with a pawnbroker:
2 to leave a possession with a pawnbroker, who gives you money for it and can sell it if the money is not paid back within a certain time:
3 to leave a possession with someone in order to borrow money from that person, with the understanding that if you do not pay it back within the agreed time, the person can keep your possession and sell it
4 any of the eight least valuable pieces in the game of chess
5 to leave a valuable possession with a pawnbroker (= someone who lends money in exchange for possessions):
Under the law, the owner of an automobile may pawn it to secure a loan up to $2,500.
6 a person or organization that does not have any real power, but is used by others to achieve something:
7 left with a pawnbroker (= someone who lends money in exchange for valuable possessions):
8 no longer with a pawnbroker (= someone who lends money in exchange for valuable possessions):
In reality, he was more pawn than player, talented, hard-working, and insecurely based.
Thus, for example, if the cultivator holds the right to bequeath, this person certainly holds the rights to plant trees, rent out parcels, and pawn.
Theodore does not emerge from this as a powerful man, indeed he is very much everybody else's pawn.
In addition to the wild-type, many mixed clones of wild-type and pawn cells appeared in progeny obtained from both crosses.
Instead, she would experience herself as a pawn.
Cells which showed only whirling or backward swimming for less than 3 s, were judged to be exhibiting the pawn phenotype.
The simplest results of segregation observed among them was that almost all the progeny expressed pawn.
Clones with wild-type and pawn phenotypes are indicated by white and black ovals, respectively.
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