smart money

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Experienced, well-informed investors, gamblers, etc. considered as a group.

   “First, we will try to understand the market using a simplified model focusing on the psychological perspective of two major groups: the smart money players who are assumed to be driving the market, and the general, uninformed public.”

2. isim The money invested or bet by such people; by extension, the opinions of such people.

   “The smart money is on a half percent cut in the basic bank lending rates before the end of the week.”

3. isim Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.
4. isim Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injuries received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service.

   “The reader may remember that Mr Allworthy gave Tom Jones a little horse, as a kind of smart-money for the punishment which he imagined he had suffered innocently.”

5. isim Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done.

   “September 30 1893, Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry, "Empolyers' Liability Bill", quoted in The Parliamentary Debates it made was paid by employers to workmen employers liable for injuries resulting as smart money”