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caution money
noun
- a sum of money deposited as security for good conduct, against possible debts, etc
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They pay down a certain sum, as caution-money, to some mandarin, and the latter answers for them.
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I was called upon to deposit no less than 11,000 at Belmont's bank as caution money on the signing of the contract.
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You forfeit your ten thousand gulden caution-money: you shall never see that again.
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It is now not only the want of the caution-money which separates him from you, but also that nasty bog called Debt.
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By the intervention of her lawyer, and with my consent as her guardian, Bessy recovered her deposited caution-money.
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