seed money

1. 1.

   capital needed to set up a new business or enterprise

   Broadercapital

Questions about seed money

What does seed money mean?

seed money means "capital needed to set up a new business or enterprise".

Is seed money a common word?

seed 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.