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Answer for the clue "Means of immediate payment ", 11 letters:
ready money

Word definitions for ready money in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ready Money is a 1914 American comedy silent film directed by Oscar Apfel and written by James Montgomery. The film stars Edward Abeles , Monroe Salisbury , Jode Mullally, Jane Darwell , Bessie Barriscale and Florence Dagmar. The film was released on November ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Money \Mon"ey\, n.; pl. Moneys . [OE. moneie, OF. moneie, F. monnaie, fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind , and cf. Moidore , Monetary .] A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. money in the form of cash that is readily available; "his wife was always a good source of ready cash"; "he paid cold cash for the TV set" [syn: ready cash , cold cash ]

Usage examples of ready money.

We don't have that kind of ready money in the bank, which is the only way I know about it - he tried to get my signature on the loan.

The little ready money which was in the country was chiefly in possession of this persecuted people, and the nobility hesitated not to follow the example of their sovereign in wringing it from them by every species of oppression, and even personal torture.

During the vacations Fred had naturally required more amusements than he had ready money for, and Mr.

There is a safe on the wall of my husband's dressing room in which he always keeps a fairly large amount of ready money.

Standing eight or ten feet away as she was and seeing those pearls on the cotton, she felt she was looking at ready money.

She cast discretion to the winds and wrote to him, protesting that it was utterly impossible for her to raise so much ready money as he demanded, and begging him to grant her a small supply or to accept the letter as a promissory note to be redeemed in three months.

Peter is said to have secured ready money from the mouth of a fish that he caught with a hook and line in the sea of Galilee.

I had just moved in and the name wasn't on the door and wouldn't be until I got ready money.

But, my God, Phil, a week's rest and a new suit and some ready money and I'd be like --like I was.

With a little ready money I can take a few weeks off and get started.

Casaubon left me, and between three and four thousand of ready money in the bank.

And now your father has no ready money to spare, and your mother will have to pay away her ninety-two pounds that she has saved, and she says your savings must go too.