hard-earned cash
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhard-earnedandcash
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hard-earned
adjective
uk/ˌhɑːdˈɜːnd/us/ˌhɑːrdˈɝːnd/
If something is hard-earned, you deserve it because you have worked hard ...
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cash
noun[U]
uk/kæʃ/us/kæʃ/
money in the form of notes and coins, rather than cheques or ...
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(Definition ofhard-earnedandcashfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If legislation forces us to hand overhard-earnedcashto the incompetent, there is little incentive for anyone to save.
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That would make us feel more confident that our constituents'hard-earnedcashwas being well spent.
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At that time, 20,000 people were losing muchhard-earnedcashthat they needed.
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Thus, it will steal money from those millions of people who have invested theirhard-earnedcashin shares in the water businesses.
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How often does one read of company directors going to gaol for this crookedness and wickedness of robbing poor people of theirhard-earnedcash?
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One would expect considerable benefits from the commitment of £2 billion of the public's hard-earnedcash—perhaps more teachers, more nurses or more police officers.
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I should have thought that those who invested theirhard-earnedcashin such a lottery would want a better return than that scheme would apparently give them.
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Here is an organisation which is doing magnificent work in the community and has already been forced to spend £50 of itshard-earnedcashto buy equipment.
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Those companies would only part with theirhard-earnedcashand expertise to support an institution that was providing what they needed to help their businesses succeed.
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That huge bureaucratic monster has been allowed to deprive my constituent of thehard-earnedcashthat he had accumulated over the years to buy his retirement property.
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Those people now find themselves with little chance of receiving either their furniture or a refund of theirhard-earnedcash, leaving them with substantially reduced bank balances.
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