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earnest-money

earnest-money is the alternative form of earnest money.

Meaning of earnest money

Noun

earnest money (countable and uncountable, plural earnest moneys)

  1. (US) Money paid as a deposit to show intent to buy or to reserve an item to be purchased; especially, money accompanying an offer to buy real estate.

Forms of earnest-money

pluralearnest-moneys

Questions about earnest-money

What is earnest-money the alternative form of?
Earnest-money is the alternative form of earnest money.

Words near earnest-money in the dictionary

  1. earner
  2. earners
  3. earnest
  4. earnest money
  5. earnest moneys
  6. earnest-money
  7. earnest-moneys
  8. earnested
  9. earnester
  10. earnestest
  11. earnestful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: earnest-money (page history and authors); earnest money (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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