idle money
noun[U]
FINANCE,BANKINGukusmoneythat issavedso it isavailableto use,ratherthaninvestedtoearninterest, etc.:
Officials at thecentralbankexpressedtheirworryat theaccumulationofsubstantialamountsofidlemoneyin thebankingsystem.
| 单词 | idle money |
| 释义 | idle money noun[U] FINANCE,BANKINGukusmoneythat issavedso it isavailableto use,ratherthaninvestedtoearninterest, etc.: Officials at thecentralbankexpressedtheirworryat theaccumulationofsubstantialamountsofidlemoneyin thebankingsystem. Examplesofidle moneyidle money They do not permit competition in their own countries, but they buy up energy companies in other countries using thisidlemoney. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English These figures representidlemoney, which means recession. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They should not allowidlemoneyto remain idle while men are standing by without work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Can we marry the idle men and theidlemoney? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 You have thisidlemoney, these idle men, and all these resources. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We are told that there is not less than£2,000,000,000 ofidlemoneyon deposit in the bank. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He had a good deal ofidlemoney. FromProject Gutenberg To-day he is saying that there isidlemoneyand idle men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If they fail to bring theidlemoneyand the idle men together it is their responsibility and they must take the consequences. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Throughout the country there were idle blast furnaces, idle pits, idle factories andidlemoney. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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