hard cash

1. 1.

   money in the form of bills or coins

   “there is a desperate shortage of hard cash”

   Synonymscashhard currency

   Broadercurrency

   Narrowerchangesmall changepocket moneyready cash

Questions about hard cash

What does hard cash mean?

hard cash means "money in the form of bills or coins".

What is another word for hard cash?

Close synonyms include cash, hard currency. 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 hard cash a common word?

hard cash is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.