hard cash
English
Noun
- Ready money.
- Synonyms: cold hard cash, cold cash
- Banknotes and coins, as contrasted with cheques, credit, IOUs, or any electronic thing.
- Antonyms: cybercash, e-cash, cybercurrency, cryptocurrency, e-money, digital currency, shitcoin
- (informal, loosely) Hard currency.
- (archaic) Specie (as contrasted with paper money).
- Synonyms: cold hard cash, cold cash
- Antonym: paper money