单词 | earnest money |
释义 | > as lemmasearnest money C1. General attributive, esp. in earnest money. See also earnest penny n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > payment by instalment or part-payment > an instalment > earnest money earnest money1349 earnest1424 earnest penny1454 arles1487 bargain-penny1490 handsel1569 impress-money1617 depositum1623 fasting penny1650 deposit1737 arrha1754 handsale1766 fastening penny1811 sign-on1922 1349–50 in R. Stewart-Brown Accts. Chamberlains Chester (1910) 144 (MED) 13s.4d. [of a certain custom called] Ernesselver [& arising from merchants buying salt]. c1460 (?c1435) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) 666 (MED) An ernest grote, whan it is dronke and goon, Bargeyn of marchauntys stant in aventure. 1557 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 266 The ernyst money of the towne rents. 1616 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) I. 136 I delivered to..Capn. Wm. Hull xxli ster: as earnest money to buy casks for ffumadoes. 1784 J. Woodforde Diary 23 Aug. (1926) II. 150 She..took the Earnest Money of me. 1827 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law II. xxxix. 389 If, therefore, earnest money be given..the contract is binding. 1883 J. E. C. Welldon tr. Aristotle Politics i. xi. 30 He got together a small amount of cash and engaged all the oil-presses in Miletus and Chios, paying down the earnest-money. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. God's penny, earnest-money, the actual coin which the master pays on concluding the hiring of a servant. 1998 Cincinnati Enquirer 1 Feb. h3/4 A simple contingency written into a sales contract could prevent the loss of earnest money. < as lemmas |
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