ready money

noun

Definitions

  1. Money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction.

    • It might have been supposed that, given a girl rapidly becoming good-looking, comfortably circumstanced, and for the first time in her life commanding ready money, she would go and make a fool of herself by dress.
    • Lane: [Gravely.] There were no cucumbers in the market this morning, sir. I went down twice. Algernon: No cucumbers! Lane: No, sir. Not even for ready money.

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