hard money

noun

politics (in the US) money given directly to a candidate in an election to assist his or her campaign Compare soft money

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The gold bugs and hard money types hated him because they believed the vast expansion in the money supply would ignite inflation.

Some instructors allegedly told students that they had access to lists of “hard money lenders.”

Most advocates of hard money are simply making a mistake, not putting their interests ahead of the common good.

He's famous for having denounced the housing boom of the 2000s as a bubble and for his ultra-hard-money views.

The hard money party was composed of men for the most part free from debt and ready to pay their way in cash.

In Rhode Island there were but two parties—the hard money party and the paper money party.

I believe the payment of sums in hard money—plain, naked bribery—is rare amongst us.

It was durin' those days when specie was so skurce and high that it was quite a circumstance to get a piece of hard money.

We have touched hard-pan prices in this country, and we want to do a hard-pan business with hard money.

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