| 单词 | ready cash |
| 释义 | > as lemmasready cash b. As a term of banking and commerce, used to signify, in its strictest sense, specie; also, less strictly, bank-notes which can at once be converted into specie, and are therefore taken as ‘cash’, in opposition to bills or other securities. Also in the phrases ready cash, cash in hand. cash on delivery: applied to the forwarding of goods to order, payment being made to the carrier or postman when the goods are delivered. Abbreviated C.O.D.hard cash: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [noun] > ready money or cash ready money1429 argent-contentc1540 bitec1555 present money1572 chink1580 cash1600 bit1607 real money1675 fob?c1680 Darby1682 ready1684 blunt1819 makeready1830 hardshells1840 ante1843 spot cash1855 call money1856 necessary1897 society > trade and finance > payment > [phrase] > to be paid for by recipient cash on delivery1851 collect1893 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 110 Nim. I shall haue my noble? Pist. In cash most truly paid. 1641 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 4 Aug. 21 244 The 103300ɫi ready cash to be paid towarde the 80000ɫi. 1696 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 100 Only bills or notes, and not cash. 1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 512/1 He had then but little cash in hand. 1782 T. Pickering in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) III. 512 These notes are not received there as cash, but only as pledges. 1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1528 On and after the 1st October next, the Bank will be ready to pay cash for their notes of every description, dated prior to the 1st Jan. 1817. 1851 Illustr. London News 11 Oct. 442/2 One Sydney merchant has sold one ton of flour..for £70, cash on delivery. 1852 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce Cash, in commerce, means the ready money, bills, drafts, bonds, and all immediately negotiable paper in an individual's possession. 1885 Manch. Examiner 21 July 5/2 To pay down the price in ready cash. 1904 Daily Chron. 13 Apr. 6/3 The cash-on-delivery system of transmitting goods by parcel post. ready cash 11. Of money: immediately available as currency; having the form of coins or banknotes. Now chiefly in ready cash.ready coin and ready gold are common in the 16th and 17th centuries.See also ready rhino n. at Compounds 4 and ready money n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [adjective] > ready money or cash readya1400 dry1574 running1662 ready money1671 ready-moneyed1757 tractile1892 a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 6324 Ten mark of pens redy, and ten mark hys ouþer store. 1472 J. Osbern in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 406 If ȝe shuld selle all this wode togedyr for redy syluer. 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Eiii Thys lande he made sale and toke readye golde. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 42 Roger..left behinde him in readie coyne..fourtie thousand Markes. 1614 T. Gentleman Englands Way to win Wealth 27 The herrings they catch they sell..for ready gold; so that it amonnteth vnto a great sum of mony, that the Hollanders & Frenchmen do cary away. 1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 222 When the Resconter is once made, its as effectual as if the Bill were paid with ready Cash. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 450. ⁋4 What advantage might be made of the ready Cash I had. 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 580/1 To turn their wrought bullion into ready sterling. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ii. 40 He had never known the ready-penny so hard to come by. 1885 Manch. Examiner 21 July 5/2 To pay down the price in ready cash. 1948 D. Thomas Let. 17 Nov. (1987) 692 When I last saw you, at Brighton time, I was rolling in ready cash. Now I have to roll on credit. 1973 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Post 20 June 64/8 A growing need for ready dollars to conduct business. 2006 Wanderlust Mar. 121/1 Take a mix of US dollars and bolivianos in ready cash. < as lemmas |
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