pawn broker

基本解釋

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.
前一個用來把旅客發(fā)送到世界各地，另一個是新澤西最大股票經(jīng)紀人出資興建的一個小木屋。
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.
由于融資變得越發(fā)困難，銀行已開始求助于金融行業(yè)的“當鋪”，將資產(chǎn)抵押給央行或回購市場以獲取現(xiàn)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.
“我們有一個抵押貸款商他當了妻子的珠寶以及他們的瓦伊金鍋爐，”一個擁有五家典當行的老板說，只要在E-bay上賣的東西，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.