pawn

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

pawn [pawn pawns pawned pawning] noun, verb BrE [pɔːn] NAmE [pɔːn]
noun
1. a ↑chess piece of the smallest size and least value. Each player has eight pawns at the start of a game
•He had to sacrifice another pawn.
2. a person or group whose actions are controlled by more powerful people
•The hostages are being used as political pawns.

Word Origin:
n. late Middle English Anglo-Norman French poun medieval Latin pedo pedon- ‘foot soldier’ Latin pes ped- ‘foot’ ↑peonv. late 15th cent. Old French pan ‘pledge, security’ West Germanic Dutch pand German Pfand

Example Bank:
•I moved my remaining pawn forward one square.
•It feels as though we're being treated as pawns in a game of politics.
•Kasparov sacrificed his weakest pawn.
•The prince became a pawn in the game of power politics.
•We exchanged pawns.
Idiom: ↑in pawn
 
verb ~ sth
to leave an object with a ↑pawnbroker in exchange for money. The object is returned to the owner if he or she pays back the money within an agreed period of time. If not, it can be sold.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
n. late Middle English Anglo-Norman French poun medieval Latin pedo pedon- ‘foot soldier’ Latin pes ped- ‘foot’ ↑peonv. late 15th cent. Old French pan ‘pledge, security’ West Germanic Dutch pand German Pfand
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  instrument, cat's-paw, soak, hock