smart-money

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[edit] English

[edit] Noun

Singular
smart-money

Plural
smart-monies

smart-money (plural smart-monies)

  1. Money paid as a compensation to a person injured.

[edit] Quotations

  • 1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Book III ch viii
    The reader may remember that Mr Allworthy gave Tom Jones a little horse, as a kind of smart-money for the punishment which he imagined he had suffered innocently.
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