Cash or funds immediately available for use; esp. (in early use) money in the form of coins or banknotes; (also occasionally) immediate payment in…

ready money; argent-vive, n.

Thieves' slang. Cash, money. Obs. Cf. bit, n.2 8a.

money in hand or paid at the time, ready money (also in plural).

A humorous colloquial term for money in the form of coin; ready cash.

Money; in the form of coin, ready money. As a term of banking and commerce, used to signify, in its strictest sense, specie; also, less strictly…

In reference to money. Thieves' slang. Money. Cf. bite, n. 5.

Current coin or cash, or something functioning as a comparable medium of exchange (esp. as opposed to imaginary money, money of account, or payment…

The contents of the fob, ‘cash’.

Ready money. Obsolete slang.

colloquial (chiefly British). Also in form reddy. Usually with the: ready money, cash. Now chiefly in plural: cash, esp. banknotes.

slang. Ready money.

= ready, n. 2a. Also in on the makeready. Obsolete.

In plural. U.S. colloquial. Hard cash. Obsolete.

figurative. colloquial. An amount paid in advance, a down payment, a premium; a price. Also: means, available cash.

(a) adv. immediately and in cash; cf. on the spot, adv. 3; (b) n. money paid immediately and in cash.

(a) money demanded of shareholders holding shares in an insolvent company, used to pay the company's creditors (now rare); (b) money lent in the…

With the. That which is needed; (now) spec. the necessary funds or money.