hard currency

Questions about hard currency

What does hard currency mean?

hard currency means "a currency that is not likely to depreciate suddenly in value". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hard currency?

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

hard currency 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.