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
Sisto expanded tiny Barium Steel rapidly by buying other small steel companies, paying for them chiefly out of their own quick assets.
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
Under that bond indenture, Baldwin agreed to maintain at all times net quick assets at least equal to its total funded debt.
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 Phillips, Chester Arthur
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