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Chinese money

Chinese money noun: risky alternatives to cash, such as convertible securities, low interest debentures, or warrants, when they are used to purchase shares in a company.

Noun

Chinese money (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Risky alternatives to cash, such as convertible securities, low interest debentures, or warrants, when they are used to purchase shares in a company.
    • Some people, though, are beginning to question the growing use of convertible securities - or so-called Chinese money - to acquire companies.1982, Financial World, volume 151, page 75
    • […] who had begun as a bond salesman specializing in the convertible debentures and other so-called “Chinese money” generated by men like Evans and by the conglomerate acquisitions of the sixties […]2001, Diana B. Henriques, The White Sharks of Wall Street
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Chinese, money.

Questions about Chinese money

What does Chinese money mean?
Chinese money means risky alternatives to cash, such as convertible securities, low interest debentures, or warrants, when they are used to purchase shares in a company.
What part of speech is Chinese money?
Chinese money is a noun.

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