READY MONEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ready money mean? 

• READY MONEY (noun)
  The noun READY MONEY has 1 sense:

1. money in the form of cash that is readily available

  Familiarity information: READY MONEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• READY MONEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Money in the form of cash that is readily available

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

cold cash; ready cash; ready money

Context example:

he paid cold cash for the TV set

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

cash; hard cash; hard currency (money in the form of bills or coins)

 Context examples 

I have a little ready money; and I agree with you, the best thing we can do, is, to live the term out here, and get a bedroom hard by.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We are bringing a good deal of ready money, as we are to buy a carriage and horses.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was not a common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. ‘From India!’ said he as he took it up, ‘Pondicherry postmark! What can this be?’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With the size and furniture of the house Mrs. Dashwood was upon the whole well satisfied; for though her former style of life rendered many additions to the latter indispensable, yet to add and improve was a delight to her; and she had at this time ready money enough to supply all that was wanted of greater elegance to the apartments.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He accepted, from his sister's stock of ready money, a small sum on account of his legacy; barely enough, I should have thought, to keep him for a month.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)