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.

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Meanings

nounChinese money (uncountable)
  1. informaluncountablebusinessRisky 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
    1 more example

    […] 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. uncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Chinese, money.
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