Definition of "pawning" [pawning]

• Present participle of pawn. (verb)

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• "Admittedly I have no data to back this assertion up, but I can speak from experience in pawning off my own tickets to friends that this strategy may well be making money to keep the organization afloat, but it is not cultivating future audiences."
• "At this late hour, the idea of pawning her little jacket occurred to her, but now she was far away from the city and its pawnshops, and there was no getting back."
• "Gold swaps could suggest a last-resort measure because they are, after all, the equivalent of 'pawning' family treasure with the BIS."