The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DOLLARS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result DOLLARS
- Party lines a republican originally supports for cash
- Foreign money, fifties, invested in new roads
- Pounds secured by cheat with Scandinavian money
- Diana perhaps hugging everyone in return for money
- Artist is held back by old-fashioned depiction of women and money
- Women casually hugging Arab for money
- Ready for a holiday in the States?
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The straight part
We know that "money" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case money = dollars.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DOLLARS mean?
DOLLARS noun- Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
- (by extension) Money generally.
- A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
- Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)