Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• HARD COST - The cost of actually constructing property improvements
  
  
• HARD COSTS - the purchase price of actual assets. For example, the purchase price of a new printing pre...
  
  
• HARD CURRENCY - A freely convertible currency that is not expected to depreciate in value in the forese...
  
  
• HARD DOLLAR SERVICE CHARGES - service charges debited or billed to a customer with insufficient balance...
  
  
• HARD DOLLARS - Actual separate payments made by a customer for services, including research, provided b...
  
  
• HARD INQUIRY - An item on a person's credit report that indicates that someone has asked for a copy of ...
  
  
• HARD MONEY LOAN - A loan made in cash by a non-institutional lender.
  
  
• HARD MONEY MORTGAGE (HARD MONEY LOAN) - A loan given based on the property value regardless of the borr...
  
  
• HARD SELL - A description of a style of salespersonship in which the potential purchaser is placed unde...
  
  
• HARDGROVE INDEX - An index, with a scale of 1 to 100, for measuring the hardness of a mineral. Diamond ...