Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ready money; cash; specie.
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Ce Top 50 mesure les marques les plus sociales en comptant le nombre de conversations/posts/articles qui les mentionnent sur des sites différents.
Radar Social: Top 50 Social Brands (March 2009) Fabienne 2009
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Mais bref si je viens a bosser 35h00 en comptant les 2h00 de sommeil en moins et la route et tout laissons tomber de suite ....
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009
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Ce Top 50 mesure les marques les plus sociales en comptant le nombre de conversations/posts/articles qui les mentionnent sur des sites différents.
Archive 2009-04-01 Fabienne 2009
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In the second place, Mr. Bob, the Magazine rule is never to disburse what we term in France the argent comptant: - I have no doubt you understand.
Expressions of the Age Fenton, James 2001
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Etant interrogé, combien de secondes il y avoit dans une année et demie, il repondit en deux minutes, 47,304,000, en comptant 365 jours dans l'année.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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Le second remarqua qu'il était à peu près inutile de mentionner que John vendait au comptant.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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And to others the only glory worth talking about is that courted by the French writer, Rabbe, who busied himself in Spain with la _gloire argent comptant_.
Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914
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The foreign office made use of ordonnances de comptant to the amount of several millions annually, for subsidies to foreign governments, expenses of ambassadors, secret service, etc. Stourm, ii.
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Such drafts (_acquits de comptant_) were made payable to bearer, and it was therefore impossible for the controller of the finances to know for what purpose they had been drawn.
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The offices abolished by M. Turgot and M. Necker were re-established, the abuses which they had removed came back, the acceptances (_acquits de comptant_) rose in 1785 to more than a hundred and thirty-six millions of livres.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830
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