Illustration: Across the counter of a small neighborhood pawnshop, a clerk slides a modest stack of banknotes toward a customer while placing the customer's wristwatch inside an individual transparent storage case.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

担たん保ぽ

tanpo

collateral for a loan

Example sentences

  1. 家いえを担保たんぽにお金かねを借かりよう。

    We’ll borrow some money on the house.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 地価下落ちかげらくで担保たんぽ価値かちの目減めべりも不安材料ふあんざいりょうである。

    They are worried about the declining value of collateral due to the decrease in land prices.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. これらの業者ぎょうしゃが担保たんぽとして物品ぶっぴんを預あずかるようになり、担保品たんぽひんを保管ほかんするために土蔵どぞうを建たてた。

    Such businessmen then started to take items as collateral and built earthen storehouses in which to store them.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 担保

  • 担shouldering; carryOnタンKunかつぐ・になう
  • 保protect; guaranteeOnホ・ホウKunたもつ

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