{"id":22607,"date":"2020-04-09T09:08:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T09:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/key-money\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:21:20","slug":"key-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/key-money","title":{"rendered":"Key Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Key Money in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Also known as a security deposit, Key Money is a payment to a landlord, payed in order to secure a lease.<br \/>\nIn some cases the term may be implied as bribe to the landlord.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synonyms:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Security Deposit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Key Money in  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glossary","category-k"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Key Money Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is the definition of Key Money? 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