quick assets
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of quick assets
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Starting as an obscure chaser of ambulance chasers in Utah, lean, sandy-haired Floyd Odium got his hands on $14,000,000 in cash and quick assets just before the market broke in 1929.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had on August 2 about $1,613,000 of cash and accounts receivable, quick assets, which amounted to only about 40% of its quick liabilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
But their quick assets in the U. S. alone were sufficient to last them four years at the 1940 deficit rate.
From Time Magazine Archive
At a news conference, Chase Chairman George Champion casually noted that his bank had about $1 billion in cash and other quick assets to meet any surge in loan demand.
From Time Magazine Archive
The quick assets held by European banks against their deposits consist of discounts or call loans, largely secured by discounts.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
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