Meaning of ready money | Babel Free

Definitions

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

uncountable, usually

Examples

“[A] yong Freſh-water ſoldier that neuer before followed theſe ſtrange warres, and yet hath a Charge newly giuen him (by the old fellow Soldado Vecchio his father, when Death had ſhotte him into the Graue) of ſome ten or twelve thouſand in ready money, beſides ſo many hundreds a yeare: […]”

“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.”

“It made one sorry to see the extraordinary quantity of cattle, horses, goats, and other things, as houses and estates all sold for less than nothing, in their anxiety to set out on the road and have some ready money in their hands to help the 'holy Councillor' in his mad enterprise.”

“Any of the fettlers were better off in respect to ready-money than he was.”

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