hard cash

noun

: money that a person has and can use immediately : money in the form of bills and coins rather than checks or credit cards

He wanted hard cash for his watch.

Examples of hard cash in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And patient investors weren’t just rewarded with outsized returns, but with record payouts of cold, hard cash. —Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024

North Korea, which has faced years of international sanctions over its nuclear weapons program, is short of everything from hard cash and food to missile technology. —Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024

Each online casino featured on this list takes real money wagers and pays out in cold, hard cash. —Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024

In hard cash, Šefčovič said that the value of cereal production dropped by 30 % last year — from 80 billion euros to less that 60 billion euros. —Raf Casert, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024

Whatever the case may be, why not give yourself something more to care about, like some cold hard cash? —Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024

That’s why many givers just cut to the chase and go with cold, hard cash. —Leigh-Ann Jackson, wsj.com, 5 Dec. 2023

Microsoft’s whip hand, more than anything, else, comes down to cold hard cash. —Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023

The premise of the question is whether the rapper can provide an amount of wisdom and sound advice that would theoretically be worth more than $500,000 in cold, hard cash. —Kyle Denis, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2023