easy money
money obtained with a minimum of effort.
money obtained by deception, fraud, artifice, etc.
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How to use easy money in a sentence
Added to that mix is central bank easy money policy with interest rates hovering near zero globally, which can be its own spur to inflation.
It hasn’t been able to withdraw the easy money without precipitating a crisis.
The re-packagers, Wyden told The New York Times that year, are “a bunch of fast-buck artists,” trying to bring doctors into a scheme to make “easy money.”
What happens when your doctor and pharmacist are the same person | Michael Schulson/Undark | October 18, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWave bills itself as being similar to PayPal in terms of offering easy money transfer between peers, but it works with mobile money accounts instead of bank accounts.
A mobile money company is Francophone Africa’s first billion-dollar startup | Alexander Onukwue | September 7, 2021 | QuartzSwayed by the allure of easy money, his successor, Joseph Stalin, revived the old tsarist vodka monopoly, rebranded with a hammer and sickle.
Tsar Nicolas II Thought Vodka Was Hurting Russians—But Banning It Helped Destroy His Empire | Mark Lawrence Schrad | July 20, 2021 | Time
Before leaving Cincinnati, Leslie told friends he wanted to make some “easy money” in New York City.
And now there was a chance to make some easy money out of it.
The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire | H.L. Mencken | October 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTruth told, he passes by spots in Las Vegas that he would have considered easy money back in his days on the street.
Frank Cullotta, the Hitman Turned Vegas Tour Guide | John L. Smith | March 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBoth girls are now in protective custody and receiving counseling for their ordeal and addiction to the easy money.
In the short term it might seem like easy money for the cash-strapped West.
The trouble, as she saw it, was to get me to cut loose from so much easy money and devote myself entirely to real stuff.
Children of the Whirlwind | Leroy ScottWasn't he too making easy money, bringing agricultural steel and cotton goods here and taking away his tally of hides?
The Wind Bloweth | Brian Oswald Donn-ByrneGive them whisky and time and the talk would come around to easy money and easy women.
The Wind Bloweth | Brian Oswald Donn-ByrneMars was a fine planet for picking up easy money—but holding it was another matter.
Police Your Planet | Lester del Rey"I was in a pretty bad way, and I thought there was easy money coming, and that rather tempted me," he said.
The Angel of Terror | Edgar Wallace
British Dictionary definitions for easy money
money made with little effort, sometimes dishonestly
commerce money that can be borrowed at a low interest rate
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Other Idioms and Phrases with easy money
Money obtained readily, with little effort and, often, illegally. For example, Winning the lottery—that's easy money! or I was wary of making easy money with the insider tips I'd been given. [c. 1900] Also see fast buck.
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