hard currency   (TTS Sound)

The noun hard currency has 2 senses

• hard currency -- (a currency that is not likely to depreciate suddenly in value; "the countries agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency, replacing previous barter arrangements"; "Germany once had a solid economy, good fiscal and monetary policies, and a hard currency")


• cash, hard cash, hard currency -- (money in the form of bills or coins; "there is a desperate shortage of hard cash")