earnest : Idioms & Phrases
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Earnest money
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noun money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract
arles.
WordNet
(Law) , money paid as earnest, to bind a bargain or to ratify and prove a sale.
Webster 1913
In earnest
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adverb in a serious manner
seriously; earnestly.
- talking earnestly with his son
- she started studying snakes in earnest
- a play dealing seriously with the question of divorce
WordNet
- serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.
