"pawn off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pawns off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawning off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawned off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawned off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pawn off (third-person singular simple present pawns off, present participle pawning off, simple past and past participle pawned off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Bruce Nash, Allan Zullo, The Baseball Hall of Shame 3, Pocket Books, page 42",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To get rid of (something or someone unwanted) by transferring it to another."
      ],
      "id": "en-pawn_off-en-verb-ZPY5yrvb",
      "links": [
        [
          "get rid of",
          "get rid of"
        ],
        [
          "unwanted",
          "unwanted"
        ],
        [
          "transfer",
          "transfer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To get rid of (something or someone unwanted) by transferring it to another."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "pawn off as"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to get rid of by transferring",
          "word": "panna kiertoon"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pawn off"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pawns off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawning off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawned off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pawned off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pawn off (third-person singular simple present pawns off, present participle pawning off, simple past and past participle pawned off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pawn off as"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Bruce Nash, Allan Zullo, The Baseball Hall of Shame 3, Pocket Books, page 42",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To get rid of (something or someone unwanted) by transferring it to another."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "get rid of",
          "get rid of"
        ],
        [
          "unwanted",
          "unwanted"
        ],
        [
          "transfer",
          "transfer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To get rid of (something or someone unwanted) by transferring it to another."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to get rid of by transferring",
      "word": "panna kiertoon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pawn off"
}