smart-money

noun

1. 1

   Experienced, well-informed investors, gamblers etc considered as a group.

2. 2

   The money invested or bet by such people; by extension, the opinions of such people.

   “The smart money is on a half percent cut in the basic bank lending rates before the end of the week.”

3. 3

   Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.

4. 4

   Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injuries received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service.

5. 5

   Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done.