"cold cash" meaning in English

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        "Money, regarded as an incentive that can override any doubts or ethical concerns."
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          "ref": "1904, David Graham Phillips, chapter 19, in The Cost:",
          "text": "\"Promises, especially from Joe Larkin, will go a long way, though they don't rouse the white hot enthusiasm that cold cash in the pocket does.\"",
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          "ref": "1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 5, in The Yukon Trail:",
          "text": "\"I wouldn't cross that rock wall for a hundred thousand dollars in cold cash.\"",
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          "ref": "2000 October 15, Matthew Miller, “The Big Federal Freeze”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jul 2013:",
          "text": "[H]ighways, dams and research laboratories have lost their primacy; cold cash—for pensions, doctors and hospitals—has taken over.",
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          "ref": "2005 December 12, Jyoti Thottham, “War on the Water Front”, in Time:",
          "text": "Maine has only 1.3 million people but at least 25 trillion gallons of drinkable water in its lakes and aquifers. Wilfong, a former state legislator, wants to turn that resource into cold cash.",
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        "Ready money."
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        "Specie (as contrasted with paper money)."
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