hot money

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noun Informal.

funds transferred suddenly from one country to another chiefly to avoid depreciation in value or to take advantage of higher interest rates.

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Origin of hot money

First recorded in 1925–30

Words nearby hot money

hotliner, hotlink, hot mess, hot metal, hot mic, hot money, hot number, hot off the press, hot on, hot pack, hot pants

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How to use hot money in a sentence

Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
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And Epstein continues to steer money toward universities to advance scientific research.
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Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
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Speech, in this case, is our ability to spend money on a goofy entertainment.
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Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
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If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
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All the Italian merchants in the realm of France, called money lenders, seized by order of Philip the fair, for their ransoms.
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The purchasers found that this claim was not well founded, and sought to recover their money.
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British Dictionary definitions for hot money

hot money

noun

capital transferred from one financial centre to another seeking the highest interest rates or the best opportunity for short-term gain, esp from changes in exchange rates

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