Usually means: Deposit showing buyer's good faith.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word earnest money:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. earnest money: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. earnest money: Collins English Dictionary
  3. earnest money: Vocabulary.com
  4. earnest-money, earnest money: Wordnik
  5. earnest money: Wiktionary
  6. earnest money: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. earnest money: Dictionary.com
  8. Earnest money: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. earnest money: Rhymezone
  10. earnest money: FreeDictionary.org
  11. earnest money: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. earnest money: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. earnest money: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Earnest money: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. earnest money: Finance-Glossary.com
  7. Earnest Money: Investopedia
  8. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  9. earnest money: Legal dictionary
  10. earnest money: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  12. Earnest Money: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earnest money: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Earnest Money: Construction Glossary

(Note: See earnest_moneys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (earnest money)

noun:  (chiefly US) Money paid as a deposit to show intent to buy or to reserve an item to be purchased; especially, money accompanying an offer to buy real estate.

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