0 money in the form of coins or notes but not a cheque or a credit card --
1 money that is available to spend immediately, especially in the form of coins and notes: --
It then gets back from the fund what it has in fact spent in hard cash.
Here we have a change, that of probity and justice giving way to considerations of hard cash.
Yet the actual pensions in terms of hard cash are very different.
In my experience, the educational world, in spite of its idealism, attaches great importance to hard cash.
We should mark that occasion by recognising the need to promote chess in the voluntary sector with hard cash.
There should be an attempt to reduce this verbiage to hard cash.
This is often, but not always, a matter of hard cash.
I maintain that there is a reserve, but it may not be a reserve in hard cash in the bank.