smart-money
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smart-money noun
- Experienced, well-informed investors, gamblers etc considered as a group.
- The money invested or bet by such people; by extension, the opinions of such people.“The smart money is on a half percent cut in the basic bank lending rates before the end of the week.”
- Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.
- 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.
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