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smart-money
smart-money
See also: smart money
English
Noun
- Money paid as a compensation to a person injured.
- 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.
- 1749 — Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Book III ch viii