easy money
Use Easy money in a sentenceeasy money
noun
1.
money obtained with a minimum of effort.
2.
money obtained by deception, fraud, artifice, etc.
Origin:
1895–1900, Americanism
1895–1900, Americanism
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World English Dictionary
| easy money | |
| —n | |
| 1. | money made with little effort, sometimes dishonestly |
| 2. | commerce money that can be borrowed at a low interest rate |
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Easy money
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Slang Dictionary
easy money definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
easy money
Money obtained readily, with little effort and, often, illegally. For example, Winning the lottery
that's easy money! or I was wary of making easy money with the insider tips I'd been given. [c. 1900] Also see fast buck.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
Con artists promote the mail order business as a way to successfully get quick, easy money.
That's why easy money hasn't worked to get things moving.
However, these programs did not exist, or did not offer quick and easy money with little time or effort as promised.
State-companies' bosses, under political pressure to create jobs, secured easy money to chase new markets.
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