hard cash

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Young tech companies once might have complemented lower salaries with generous equity packages, but now they’re turning to cold hard cash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

That this curiosity translates to cold, hard cash is fantastic news in the streaming era, when Netflix, Hulu and the like have all but annihilated the theatrical mid-budget film.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

Pyongyang has also moved to revive inbound tourism to earn much-needed hard cash, developing lavish coastal and mountain resorts.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

It sends out enough food for about 900,000 meals a year, its founder Neil Reid has said, but needed "people to volunteer food and cold, hard cash" for it to keep going.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

Fortunately this amount was for the most part in cheques, which I succeeded in stopping at the bank; but the loss in hard cash exceeded �1,600.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.