soft money

collocation in English

meaningsofsoftandmoney

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soft
adjective
uk
/sɒft/us
/sɑːft/
not hard ...
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money
noun[U]
uk
/ˈmʌn.i/us
/ˈmʌn.i/
coins or notes (= special pieces of paper) that are used to buy things, or an amount of these that a ...
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(Definition ofsoftandmoneyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsoft money

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Furthermore, business "softmoney" spending far exceeds that of labor unions.
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Some of the services used "softmoney", such as "money from running courses" or "research money" to fund the training of their clinical scientists, as their training budgets were inadequate.
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Thesoftmoneymen argued that the problem in international liquidity was to provide adequate liquidity to ensure that the growth of trade continued.
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The work is heavily dependent on "softmoney" or voluntary contributions, and the hospital finds that it is unable to finance very necessary projects.
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In other words, central funding will in effect followsoftmoneyfunding.
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Thus following the direction ofsoftmoneywon in competition will direct clinical supplementation to units which need it.
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There are a number of examples of the argument between thesoftmoneymen and the hard money men.
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In this rush forsoftmoneyacross the exchanges, we would suffer immeasurably at the end of the road.
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Thus, the argument over these years—to over-simplify, as one must in a brief speech—has been between the hard money men and thesoftmoneymen.
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That means that thesoftmoney— the margin for manoeuvre—comes down once again to concessionary travel and the authority's ability to subsidise services.
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If they can cope efficiently with hard money, it shows that they are soundly based and can efficiently use anysoftmoneythat is made available.
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He has also written several works on issues related tosoftmoneyin campaigns.
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These are often known assoftmoneypositions.
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Money contributed to campaigns can be classified into hard money andsoftmoney.
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Throughout his service, he focused on ethics reform, passing laws that limited the use ofsoftmoneyin city elections.
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Later, this money was used for candidate-related issue ads, which led to a substantial increase insoftmoneycontributions and expenditures in elections.
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