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smart-money

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Noun

smart-money noun

  1. Experienced, well-informed investors, gamblers etc considered as a group.
  2. 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.”
  3. Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.
  4. 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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