cold cash

noun [U] (also cold, hard cash, also hard cash) mainly US informal

Definition

› MONEY money available to spend, especially money in the form of coins and notes: Those overvalued companies were purchased not with cold cash but with similarly overvalued stock.

(Definition of cold cash noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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