English-Italian translations for pawn

pedinaLa persona, il cittadino, è titolare di diritti, non è soltanto un’unità produttiva o una pedina del libero mercato. The individual citizen holds rights, and is not merely a unit of production or a pawn of the free market. La nostra disponibilità ad accogliere nuovi membri non deve essere una pedina nelle nostre controversie interne riguardanti la forma delle Istituzioni europee. Our willingness to accept new members should not be a pawn in our internal disputes regarding the shape of the European institutions. Non è neanche bene concedere eccessivo spazio agli accordi verticali, perché il dettagliante può diventare una pedina nella scacchiera diretta da grandi distributori e produttori. Nor is too much scope for vertical agreements a good thing, since retailers can then become pawns in the game of chess played out between major distributors and producers.
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The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant
The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge
An instance of pawning something
An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge
A pawnshop; pawnbroker
To pledge; to stake or wager
A gallery. Chambers 1908--

Though a pawn of the gods, her departure is the precipitating cause of the Trojan War
All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage.

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