pawn broker

基本解释

One of them sends airplanes all over the planet. The other is a few blocks from a business that calls itself New Jersey’s largest pawn broker.
前一个用来把旅客发送到世界各地，另一个是新泽西最大股票经纪人出资兴建的一个小木屋。
With funding ever harder to come by, banks are resorting to the financial industry’s equivalent of a pawn broker: parking assets on repo markets or at the central bank to get cash.
由于融资变得越发困难，银行已开始求助于金融行业的“当铺”，将资产抵押给央行或回购市场以获取现金。
"We had one mortgage broker who pawned his wife's jewelry and their Viking oven, " says the owner of five pawn shops who takes "everything that can be sold on E-bay" as collateral.
“我们有一个抵押贷款商他当了妻子的珠宝以及他们的瓦伊金锅炉，”一个拥有五家典当行的老板说，只要在E-bay上卖的东西，都能拿去做抵押。
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Once the customer pays back the loan, the pawn broker ships the item back.
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If the customer defaults, the pawn broker keeps the item and sells it to satisfy the loan balance.
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If the customer accepts the offer and signs the contract, the pawn broker sends the customer funds via bank transfer.
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A pawnbroker is a person who lends people money. People give the pawnbroker something they own, which can be sold if they do not pay back the money before a certain time.