(obsolete) Money paid in hand to bind a contract; earnest money.

Money paid, especially at regular intervals, to criminals or to corrupt officials who threaten to cause harm to the payer or to his or her business if the money is not paid.

Someone who provides the financing for an endeavor.

(obsolete) Poll tax. / (obsolete) A reward paid per person captured at sea etc. / (obsolete) A reward for a proscribed outlaw's head.

plural of money man

(idiomatic) Money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence.

Synonym of cash crop

(business, finance) The interest rate paid for borrowed funds or the interest itself.

Alternative form of conscience money

A herbaceous biennial plant of the species Lunaria annua, grown for its attractive spring flowering and dried silver seed pod middles, native