hard cash
noun
: money that a person has and can use immediately : money in the form of bills and coins rather than checks or credit cards
He wanted hard cash for his watch.
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What’s more, brands and fashion firms need to provide up-front capital investments—cold, hard cash—to get on-site renewable energy infrastructure development or a transition to a PPA off the ground.
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Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
But, as always, whether it is achieved will come down to cold, hard cash.
—New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2024
What usually begins with one main event can often expand into a series of offshoots, including dinners and group activities, all of which require different outfits, locations and most important of all, cold, hard cash.
—Alicia Lansom, refinery29.com, 22 May 2024
As the report boils it down in hard cash, had the United Kingdom preserved its pre-Brexit market share, its exports would have grown by $64 billion instead of shrinking by $4 billion between 2019 and 2022.
—Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
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Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
But, as always, whether it is achieved will come down to cold, hard cash.
—New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2024
What usually begins with one main event can often expand into a series of offshoots, including dinners and group activities, all of which require different outfits, locations and most important of all, cold, hard cash.
—Alicia Lansom, refinery29.com, 22 May 2024
As the report boils it down in hard cash, had the United Kingdom preserved its pre-Brexit market share, its exports would have grown by $64 billion instead of shrinking by $4 billion between 2019 and 2022.
—Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
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“Hard cash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20cash. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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