Definição

• usually found as the "ready." An elliptical expression for money immediately available and used in this sense as early as the beginning of the fifteenth century. Other forms are ready money, ready gold, ready penny, ready sterling, etc.

  Shadwell, in his play The Squire of Al- satm, 1688 (i. 1), mentions "the ready" and Goldsmith in the Eton Latin Grammar says, Aes in presenti perfectum format, i.e., "Ready money makes a man perfect."

Fonte

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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