Meanings
- idiomaticinformaluncountableMoney that is easily acquired.
[…] the letters he sent to the Italian artists asked them not for nature studies as he intended, but for “the really hot stuff, if you know what I mean.” The Italians shrugged, decided it was easy money and supplied Gutenberg with some of the finest pornography ever seen.
2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 46Synonyms: fast buck, fast money, quick buck
- uncountableeconomicsA monetary policy that makes money, credit, or both readily available to many borrowers and at relatively low interest rates.
Easy money / Rain it down on the wife and the kids / Rain it down on the house where we live / Rain until you got nothing left to give
2004, Nick Cave, “Easy Money”, in Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsAntonyms: tight money
Synonyms & antonyms
nounMoney that is easily acquired.
nounA monetary policy that makes money, credit, or both readily available to many borrowers and at relatively low interest rates.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe economic condition in which credit is easy to secure
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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