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ready monies

ready monies is the plural of ready money.

Meaning of ready money

Noun

ready money (usually uncountable, plural ready moneys or ready monies)

  1. (usually) Money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction.
    • [A] yong Freſh-water ſoldier that neuer before followed theſe ſtrange warres, and yet hath a Charge newly giuen him (by the old fellow Soldado Vecchio his father, when Death had ſhotte him into the Graue) of ſome ten or twelve thouſand in ready money, beſides ſo many hundreds a yeare: […]1609, Thomas Dekker, “Lanthorne and Candle-light. Or, The Bell-man’s Second Nights-walke. […] The Second Edition, […]: Chapter 2”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Non-dramatic Works of...

Questions about ready monies

What is ready monies the plural of?
Ready monies is the plural of ready money.

Words near ready monies in the dictionary

  1. ready like Freddy
  2. ready meal
  3. ready meals
  4. ready money
  5. ready moneys
  6. ready monies
  7. ready or not
  8. ready queue
  9. ready queues
  10. ready reckoner
  11. ready reckoners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ready monies (page history and authors); ready 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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