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Definition von pawning off im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Present participle of pawn off
- pawn off
- To get rid of (something or someone unwanted) by transferring it to another
LeMaster was dealt to the even-lowlier Pittsburgh Pirates for a minor league pitcher. The Indians were so anxious to pawn him off on the Pirates that the club even paid Johnnie a $100,000 assignment fee to go to Pittsburgh.
- pawn off
- Sell or give something away by pretending it is something more valuable than it is, sell or give by trickery. "I think that the man palmed off a television set that doesn't work."