hard cash

Example Sentences

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“We are excited to lie constantly for cold, hard cash, but this time in a cool way, and we’ll make sure some of it gets back to the families,” Collins told The Times.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026

To lure top AI talent, startups are turning to cold, hard cash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The impoverished North has moved to revive inbound tourism to earn much-needed hard cash in the face of sanctions over its nuclear programmes, developing lavish coast and mountain resorts.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

It sends out enough food for about 900,000 meals a year, its founder Neil Reid has said, but needed "people to volunteer food and cold, hard cash" for it to keep going.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

Some few received their pay in hard cash, and went off to other wars; but the large majority, Breton and Angevin, French and Fleming, no less than Norman, wanted land.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various