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Interstate Commerce Commission, the (oh) and pawn(4) (iou)


Interstate Commerce Commission, the (oh)



the ICC the US government organization that deals with the way the US states buy, sell, and exchange goods with each Other

pawn(4) (iou)



pawn noun3 & verb. L15.
[Old French pan, pand, pant pledge, Security, plunder from West Germanic word repr. by Old Frisian pand, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch pant (Dutch pand), Old High German pfant (German Pfand).]
A. noun.
A thing or person given, or left in another's keeping, as Security for a Debt or for the performance of some action; a pledge, a surety. Now rare. L15.
b. fig. (A sign or symbol of) a promise. L16.
c. A person held as a Security for Debt and used as a slave. M19.
The state or condition of being given or held as a pledge or as Security for the repayment of a loan. Chiefly in at pawn, in pawn. M16
Blackwood's Magazine Redeem one of the innumerable suits..he has in pawn.
b. The action of pawning or pledging something. E19.
A pawnbroker, a pawnshop. Chiefly Scot. M19.
Comb.: pawnbroker a person who lends money on the Security of an article pawned; pawnbrokery (a) a pawnbroker's shop; (b) pawnbroking; pawnbroking the occupation or action of lending money on the Security of pawned articles; pawnshop a pawnbroker's shop or place of business; pawn-ticket: issued by a pawnbroker in exchange for an article pawned, bearing particulars of the loan.
b. verb trans. Give (a thing) as Security for the payment of a Debt or the performance of an action; spec. deposit with a person, esp. a pawnbroker, as Security for the repayment of a loan. Also fig., pledge, wager, (one's honour, life, word, etc.). M16.
G. Greene I've pawned a lot..and dropped the ticket in the nearest dustbin. A. N. Wilson Eladie..had to pawn her diamond cross for 4.
pawnable adjective M18.
pawnage noun (rare) the action of pawning something; a pawned object: E17-M19.
pawner noun M18.