earnest money

1. 1.

   money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract

   Synonymsarles

   Broaderearnest

Questions about earnest money

What does earnest money mean?

earnest money means "money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract".

What is another word for earnest money?

Close synonyms include arles. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is earnest money a common word?

earnest money is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.