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dry powder
[ drahy pou-der ]
noun
- cash reserves, liquid assets, or easily liquidated assets such as readily saleable stocks and bonds, held by a corporation or an individual in order to cover current or future obligations, make new purchases, or take advantage of unforeseen opportunities:
Stick with small investments for now, but keep some dry powder on hand in case we start to see this industry grow stronger.
Word History and Origins
Origin of dry powder1
Example Sentences
But once refinancing starts to slow, banks may face lower margins as they run out of dry powder.
Any colour that can be obtained in a fine dry powder may be used in wood-block printing.
The heat and the vacuum reduce the extract to a dry powder in less than one revolution of the drum.
Mix this chloride of silver, in a dry powder, with three times its weight of pipe-clay well burnt and pounded.
Powder-blue, mix'd with the saffron-water, makes a green; for blue, mix some dry powder-blue with some water.
Safely landed, Robbie shouldered the climbing ropes and I took the gun, having a stock of dry powder and shot in my pockets.
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