smart money
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The money invested or bet by such people; by extension, the opinions of such people.
Uncountable
noun
Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.
Uncountable
noun
Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injuries received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service.
Uncountable
noun
Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "First, we will try to understand the market using a simplified model focusing on the psychological perspective of two major groups: the smart money players who are assumed to be driving the market, and the general, uninformed public."
- "If the smart money is so smart, why did it tell you what it's doing? If you're smart enough to know what the smart money thinks, then why aren't you keeping it a secret so you can cash in on it all by yourself?"
- "The smart money is on a half percent cut in the basic bank lending rates before the end of the week."
- "Simple game theory tells us that a process of backward induction should, really, at some point, induce the smart money to get out. And were that to happen, investors really should be prepared to lose everything."
- "Although the Department for Transport (to its credit) wants the GBR legislation, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak does not. He doesn't see railways as a priority in the run-up to a General Election which the smart money says he will likely lose."
- "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."