cash
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
card-games
finance
gambling
games
poker
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 *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
Inflected forms:
form: cashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cashed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more cash
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cash
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
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;" […]
gloss: Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […].
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
examples: Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.
gloss: Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
countable
usually
examples: Let me just bring these to the cash for you.
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.
gloss: An instance of winning a cash prize.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.
gloss: A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
usually
examples: This bank[…] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money,
She was said to have amassed a great sum of money for ill use ; 20,000l. are known to be in her cash ;
gloss: To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My single "Lick and Move" had made it to number four on the Top Ten charts, and I had gotten a nice check from Ruthless Rap. I cashed that shit and took Muddah shopping in Midtown and told her to get any damn thing she wanted.
gloss: To obtain a payout from a tournament.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: Great; excellent; cool.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Related words: small, unmarked bills
Derived words: actual cash value
ash cash
cash advance
cash and carry
cash and carry trade
Cash App
cash-back
cashback
cash bar
cash basis
cashbook
cashbox
cash-box
cash box
cash boy
cash card
cash carrier
cash cow
cash crop
cash desk
cash dispenser
cash drag
cashectomy
cash fag
cash-fag
cashfag
cash flow
cash-flow
cash for crash
cash game
Cashgate
cash grab
cashgrab
cash-in
cash-in-hand
cash in hand
cash in one's chips
cash instrument
cash is king
cash leakage
cashless
cashlessness
cashlike
cash limit
cash machine
cashmaster
cash money
cashola
cash on delivery
cash on the barrelhead
cash on the barrel-head
cash on the barrel head
cash on the line
cash-out
cashout
cashpoint
cash point
cash-poor
cash poor
cash position
cash railway
cash register
cash rich
cash solvent
cashspiel
cash-starved
cash strapped
cash-strapped
cash stuffing
cashtag
cashtration
cash value
cashwise
cashworthy
cash wrap
cold cash
cold hard cash
cybercash
digital cash
e-cash
encash
fag cash
flash for cash
flash the cash
free cash flow
hard cash
holocash
Holocash
near cash
noncash
order to cash
petty cash
plum cash
spot cash
strapped for cash
take the cash and let the credit go
write checks one can't cash
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