EASY MONEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does easy money mean? 

• EASY MONEY (noun)
  The noun EASY MONEY has 2 senses:

1. income obtained with a minimum of effort

2. the economic condition in which credit is easy to secure

  Familiarity information: EASY MONEY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EASY MONEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Income obtained with a minimum of effort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

easy money; gravy train

Hypernyms ("easy money" is a kind of...):

income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The economic condition in which credit is easy to secure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("easy money" is a kind of...):

financial condition (the condition of (corporate or personal) finances)

Antonym:

tight money (the economic condition in which credit is difficult to secure and interest rates are high)

 Context examples 

They were, at least, agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)