easy money


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easy money

n
1. money made with little effort, sometimes dishonestly
2. (Banking & Finance) commerce money that can be borrowed at a low interest rate
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Noun1.easy money - income obtained with a minimum of effort
income - the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time
2.easy money - the economic condition in which credit is easy to secure
financial condition - the condition of (corporate or personal) finances
tight money - the economic condition in which credit is difficult to secure and interest rates are high
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You've always done teamin' an' pulled down easy money prizefightin'.
BURNING DAYLIGHT CLEANED OUT, he read; DAYLIGHT GETS HIS; ANOTHER WESTERNER FAILS TO FIND EASY MONEY. As he entered his hotel, a later edition announced the suicide of a young man, a lamb, who had followed Daylight's play.
It was easy money and The Sheik had none too much easy money since the Big Bwana had so circumscribed the limits of his ancient domain that he dared not even steal ivory from natives within two hundred miles of the Big Bwana's douar.
"Easy money, eh?" Then he added proudly: "I wrote it in two days.
This man talked with Jurgis for a while, and then told him that he had a little plan by which a man who looked like a workingman might make some easy money; but it was a private affair, and had to be kept quiet.
I do not know where will the habit of getting easy money lead us to?
Some people might be attracted by committing small-time crimes such as mugging others in the street as it is a quick-fix for their problems easy money.
People are unable to carry their life which takes them to have easy money earning.
Tabora also said residents tipped off police about Ali, who was bragging in his village about his two 'accomplishments' where he earned 'easy money.'
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Those markets had tripled over the previous three decades to 347 per cent of the world's gross economic output, driven up by easy money pouring out of central banks.
The head of the apex bank said that it is time that the central bank assessed 'in a balanced manner' the merits and demerits of easy money policy.