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 square directly forward, it may move two squares directly forward on its first move, and it may capture one square diagonally forward. Each player be ...
, the weakest and most numerous chess piece in the game
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Pawnbroker
A pawnbroker is an individual that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as Collateral (finance), collateral. A pawnbrokering business is called a pawnshop, and while many items can be pawned, pawnshops typic ...
or pawnshop, a business that provides loans by taking personal property as collateral
Pawn or The Pawn may also refer to:
Places
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Pawn, Oregon
Pawn was a historic unincorporated community in Lane County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lay at the headwaters of the North Fork Siuslaw River, where Sam Creek and West Branch join to form the river in the Siuslaw National Forest of the ...
, an historic forest community
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Pawn River
This is a list of rivers in Myanmar (also known as Burma).
This list is arranged by drainage basin from east to west, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Bay of Bengal
* Nāf River
* Kaladan River
* Lemro R ...
, Burma
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Noatak Airport
Noatak Airport ( Iñupiaq: ''Nuataam Mirvia'') is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Noatak, in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state in Alaska.
Fac ...
, 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
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''The Pawn'' (video game), 1985 interactive fiction game
* "Pawns", a song on the 2017 Paloma Faith album ''
The Architect''
Other uses
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Pawnship
Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery, bonded labour, or peonage, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation. Where the terms of the repayment are not clearly or reasonably stated, or whe ...
, debt bondage slavery
* Pawn, another name for a
pledge in certain jurisdictions
* Pawn, a token or
game piece in board and video games
People with the surname
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Doris Pawn
Doris Pawn (born Doris Alice Pahn; December 29, 1894 – March 30, 1988) was an American silent era film actress.
Early life
Born and raised in Norfolk, Nebraska, Pawn spent her vacations on the ranch of an uncle. There, she learned to ri ...
(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)
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