1. Money in the form of cash that is readily available
   "he paid cold cash for the TV set"
   - ready cash, ready money

Type of: cash, hard cash, hard currency

• hard tick
• hard time
• hard times
• hard up
• hard water
• hard wheat
• hard worker
• hard-and-fast
• hard-baked
• hard-bitten
• hard-boiled
• hard-boiled egg
• hard-cooked egg
• hard-fought
• hard-hitting
• hard-nosed
• hard-of-hearing
• hard-on
• hard-pressed
• hard-shell
• hard-shell clam
• hard-shell crab
• hard-shelled
• hard-skinned puffball
• hard-to-please