cash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăsh
ipa: /kæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
homophone: cache
Forms: form: cashes
Etymology: From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
Senses: examples: text: After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
text: When a man bargains for the price of maintaining such or such principles, or of endeavouring to make out such or such a case, without believing in the soundness of the principles or the truth of the case; such a man, whether he touch the cash (or paper-money) before or after the performance of his work, and whether he work with his tongue or his pen, may, I think be fairly charged with seeking after "base lucre;" […]
ref: 1810 July 13, William Cobbett, “To the Reader”, in Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume XVIII, number 1, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Richard Bagshaw, Brydges Street, Covent-Garden, and John Budd, Pall-Mall, published 14 July 1810, →OCLC, columns 13–14:
glosses: Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.
examples: text: Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […].
ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
examples: text: Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.
ref: 2017, Erin Lowry, Broke Millennial, page 146:
glosses: Money.
examples: text: Let me just bring these to the cash for you.
text: Visit Apple’s jam-packed stores and you won’t see lines at the cash — because every sales clerk is also your cashier, using cellphone card-readers to zip you through.
ref: 2017 December 30, Josh Freed, “Just you wait — technology might be the end of the line”, in Montreal Gazette, page A4, column 2:
glosses: Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
examples: text: In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.
ref: 2012, Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 2:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: An instance of winning a cash prize.
examples: text: This bank[…] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money,
ref: 1787 [1764], Adam Anderson, quoting William Temple, An Historical And Chronological Deduction Of The Origin Of Commerce, From the Earliest Accounts, volume 1, page 236:
text: She was said to have amassed a great sum of money for ill use ; 20,000l. are known to be in her cash ;
ref: 1852, Theresa Lewis, quoting a letter from John More to Ralph Winwood, Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, volume 2, page 321:
glosses: A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
Derived terms: word: actual cash value
word: ash cash
word: cash advance
word: cash and carry
word: cash and carry trade
word: Cash App
word: cash-back
word: cashback
word: cash bar
word: cash basis
word: cashbook
word: cashbox
word: cash-box
word: cash box
word: cash boy
word: cash card
word: cash carrier
word: cash cow
word: cash crop
word: cash desk
word: cash dispenser
word: cash drag
word: cashectomy
word: cash fag
word: cash-fag
word: cashfag
word: cash flow
word: cash-flow
word: cash for crash
word: cash game
word: Cashgate
word: cash grab
word: cashgrab
word: cash-in
word: cash-in-hand
word: cash in hand
word: cash in one's chips
word: cash instrument
word: cash is king
word: cash leakage
word: cashless
word: cashlessness
word: cashlike
word: cash limit
word: cash machine
word: cashmaster
word: cash money
word: cashola
word: cash on delivery
word: cash on the barrelhead
word: cash on the barrel-head
word: cash on the barrel head
word: cash on the line
word: cash-out
word: cashout
word: cashpoint
word: cash point
word: cash-poor
word: cash poor
word: cash position
word: cash railway
word: cash register
word: cash rich
word: cash solvent
word: cashspiel
word: cash-starved
word: cash strapped
word: cash-strapped
word: cash stuffing
word: cashtag
word: cashtration
word: cash value
word: cashwise
word: cashworthy
word: cash wrap
word: cold cash
word: cold hard cash
word: cybercash
word: digital cash
word: e-cash
word: encash
word: fag cash
word: flash for cash
word: flash the cash
word: free cash flow
word: hard cash
word: holocash
word: Holocash
word: near cash
word: noncash
word: order to cash
word: petty cash
word: plum cash
word: spot cash
word: strapped for cash
word: take the cash and let the credit go
word: write checks one can't cash
Related terms: small, unmarked bills