Pawn - Definition and Overview

See:

• Pawn (chess) for the piece used in the board game chess.
• Pawnbroker for the act of pawning goods, usually in a pawnshop.
• Idiomatically, an exploited person or character, considered expendable (from the use of the chess piece). He was only a pawn in her game.
• The Pawn, a 1980s text adventure