"ready money" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ready moneys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ready monies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s",
        "3": "ready monies"
      },
      "expansion": "ready money (usually uncountable, plural ready moneys or ready monies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Business",
          "orig": "en:Business",
          "parents": [
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
          "parents": [
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, R.B. Cunninghame Graham, chapter VI, in A Brazilian mystic: being the life and miracles of Antonio Conselheiro, London: William Heinemann, page 103",
          "text": "It made one sorry to see the extraordinary quantity of cattle, horses, goats, and other things, as houses and estates all sold for less than nothing, in their anxiety to set out on the road and have some ready money in their hands to help the 'holy Councillor' in his mad enterprise.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 84",
          "text": "Any of the fettlers were better off in respect to ready-money than he was.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction."
      ],
      "id": "en-ready_money-en-noun-6X0YYZti",
      "links": [
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "Money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "payment",
          "payment"
        ],
        [
          "transaction",
          "transaction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(business, finance) Money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "cash"
        },
        {
          "word": "readies"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ready money"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ready moneys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ready monies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s",
        "3": "ready monies"
      },
      "expansion": "ready money (usually uncountable, plural ready moneys or ready monies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "cash"
    },
    {
      "word": "readies"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Business",
        "en:Finance"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, R.B. Cunninghame Graham, chapter VI, in A Brazilian mystic: being the life and miracles of Antonio Conselheiro, London: William Heinemann, page 103",
          "text": "It made one sorry to see the extraordinary quantity of cattle, horses, goats, and other things, as houses and estates all sold for less than nothing, in their anxiety to set out on the road and have some ready money in their hands to help the 'holy Councillor' in his mad enterprise.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 84",
          "text": "Any of the fettlers were better off in respect to ready-money than he was.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "Money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "payment",
          "payment"
        ],
        [
          "transaction",
          "transaction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(business, finance) Money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ready money"
}