Synonyms for earnest money

Grammar : Noun

Définition of earnest money

As in down payment : noun part payment when buying

Example sentences :

Antoine then asked for earnest money, and received two hundred francs.
Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola

Meet me here on to-morrow evening to receive the earnest money.
Extract from : « Hidden Hand » by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

"Why, if you have taken the earnest money, ye are bound to go," said the sheriff.
Extract from : « Operas Every Child Should Know » by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

Mordecai paid me earnest money; he has my word; he is waiting for the girl.
Extract from : « The Abbatial Crosier » by Eugne Sue

Here is your earnest money, said the voice, nine and twenty silver pennies.
Extract from : « Devil Stories » by Various

There, take your earnest money; and let your aunt bring you here about this time to-morrow evening.'
Extract from : « The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 » by Eugne Sue

You have not fulfilled the promise made me, but the thirty ducats which I gave you as earnest money, will be no great loss.
Extract from : « The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes » by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Tom had paid the "earnest money," when the old dame came back and said she would have the sow.
Extract from : « Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series » by William Bottrell

I paid the arrhes, or earnest money, and was at the river-stairs punctually at four the next morning.
Extract from : « Pencillings by the Way » by N. Parker Willis

Eva begged the man to leave the zecchin, promising to give him another at home and half a pound in coppers as earnest money.
Extract from : « In The Fire Of The Forge, Complete » by Georg Ebers

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