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Definition: Earnest Money |
Earnest MoneyNoun1. Money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Finance | A bond submitted with the bid of guarantee that the bid has been made in good faith and the bidder will enter into contract if his proposal is accepted. He will furnish performance and payment bonds ; Financial security supplied by a bank to a bidder when the bid is submitted which guarantees that the bidder will not withdraw his bid during the period of bid validity specified on the bid form, will execute the contract form, if required and will supply performance security. If he fails to do any of these the security is forfeit. The security is refundable if the bid is unsuccessful ;. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A sum of money given to bind an agreement, such as the sale of real estate, the advance of a loan or some other transaction requiring a deposit. Earnest money is forfeited by the donor if he or she fails to carry out the terms of the contract or agreement. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Earnest Money |
| English words defined with "earnest money": appealing, Arles, Arles penny ♦ Earles penny ♦ Hand money, Handsel ♦ imploring, importunate, Imprest ♦ pleading. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "earnest money": Subarration. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
earnest money | 110 |
agreement earnest money | 44 |
earnest money contract | 32 |
earnest money contract form | 10 |
earnest money deposit | 9 |
agreement deadline earnest money | 5 |
earnest money receipt | 3 |
earnest money refund | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "earnest money"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kaparosje. (various references) | |
Chinese | 保證金 (bail, cash deposit). (various references) | |
Danish | sikkerhedsstillelse (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, security, tender guarantee, to give security), depositum (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, deposit, down payment, guarantee deposit, initial margin, margin requirement, payment on account, pledge deposit, provision, security, tender guarantee). (various references) | |
Dutch | opbodobligatie (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee), inschrijvingsborgtocht (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee), biedingsgarantie (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee), bid bond (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee). (various references) | |
French | garantie d'offre, garantie de soumission, dépôt de garantie, cautionnement provisoire. (various references) | |
German | Bietungsgarantie (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee), Bietungsbürgschaft (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee), bid bond (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee), angeld (down payment, first instalment, initial deposit, instalment), Abschreibungsgarantie (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee). (various references) | |
Greek | καπάρο (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, deposit, down payment, earnest, tender guarantee), προκαταβολή χρημάτων (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee), εγγύηση προσφοράς σε δημοπρασία (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee), αρραβώνας (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "מי ק"ימ" (deposit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | előleg (advance money, advance payment, deposit, earnest, money advanced, money down, sub), foglaló (advance money, advance payment, deposit, down payment, earnest, god's-penny), felpénz (earnest, exchange premium, premium on exchange), bánatpénz (earnest, forfeit, forfeit money, indemnity, retention money). (various references) | |
Italian | garanzia passiva (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee), garanzia dell'offerta (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee), caparra (deposit, down payment, earnest), bid bond (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 手付け金 (a deposit), 手付け (a deposit). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | てつけき" (a deposit), てつけ (a deposit). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earnestay oneymay.(various references) | |
Russian | задаток (cedent, deposit, down payment, earnest, handsel). (various references) | |
Spanish | fianza de oferta (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee), fianza de licitación (bid bond, bid guarantee, Bid security, tender guarantee). (various references) | |
Turkish | pey akçesi (handsel, Hansel, retainer), kaparo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arrabone, arrabonem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-m-n-n-o-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: mesenteron, nanometers, nemerteans. | |
-3 letters: mesentera, mesentery, monastery, nanometer, nemertean, ornaments, oysterman, oystermen, sonneteer. | |
-4 letters: anemones, annoyers, antonyms, earstone, easement, enterons, eyestone, monerans, monetary, moneyers, monstera, montanes, neonates, onstream, ornament, remanent, remnants, resonant, resonate, serenate, sonarmen, stramony, tenoners, tonearms, yestreen. | |
-5 letters: amnesty, anemone, annoyer, anonyms, antonym, anymore, arenose, aroynts, atoners, earnest, eastern, emoters, enamors, ensnare, enteron, entrees, estrone, etymons, eyesome, eyesore, maestro, manners, mannose, martens, masonry, mastery, matrons, meaners, meanest, meeters, mentors, meteors, moaners, moneran, moneyer, monster, montane, moreens, natrons, nearest, neatens, neonate, neoteny, nonarts, nonmeat, oarsmen, remates, remeets, remnant, remotes, renames, rennase, rennets, reteams, retenes, roseate, sarment, senator, smarten, steamer, streamy, styrene, tanners, tannery, teemers, teeners, tenners, tenoner, tonearm, tonemes, tonners, transom, treason, yestern. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 61 72 6E 65 73 74 4D 6F 6E 65 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100001 01110010 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001101 01101111 01101110 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a r n e s t   M o n e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0072 006E 0065 0073 0074 004D 006F 006E 0065 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3967848071858624781807191 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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