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earnest money
noun
- money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of earnest money1
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Example Sentences
Well, good Monsieur Peyrolles, let us have that three hundred pistoles as earnest money for the larger sum.
I thought the least I could do was to make good to them on the earnest money they had forfeited, and they accepted it.
Then, having insisted on paying down a guinea for earnest-money, he took the keys and her directions for finding the house.
"Of course that is merely earnest-money," said the mistress of the house.
Well, if there is to be no earnest-money, at least we will have the vodka.
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