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cash¹
- /kæʃ/ Australia, US, UK
- [kʰæʃ] Australia, US, UK
- /kaʃ/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- /kɛʃ/ New Zealand
Sounds like cache · Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
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”).
noun cashes
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Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.
How are you off for cash? After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
Similar: cash money, cold hard cash
- Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […].
- Money. Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.
- Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located. Let me just bring these to the cash for you.
- An instance of winning a cash prize. In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.
- A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. This bank[…] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money,
verb cashes · cashing · cashed
- To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills. 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.
- To obtain a payout from a tournament.
adjective more cash · most cash
- Great; excellent; cool.
cash²
- /kæʃ/ Australia, US, UK
- [kʰæʃ] Australia, US, UK
- /kaʃ/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- /kɛʃ/ New Zealand
Sounds like cache · Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
Variant of earlier cass under influence from cash above, from Tamil காசு (kācu), ultimately from Sanskrit karsha ("weight of 1/400 tulā, तुला"). Extended to other similar forms of low-denomination coins in Southeast and East Asia following the example of cognate Portuguese cas, casse, caxa, caixa.
noun cashes · cash
- The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.
- Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin. Shentzŭ is the Chinese name for what we would call a mule litter. As this conveyance can go over almost any kind of road, I decided on it, and engaged two mules for the litter, and a donkey for the baggage: the three animals with the shentzŭ and a man cost 1300 cash per day when we travelled, and 70
cash³
- /kæʃ/ Australia, US, UK
- [kʰæʃ] Australia, US, UK
- /kaʃ/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- /kɛʃ/ New Zealand
Sounds like cache · Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
See cashier.
verb cashes · cashing · cashed
- To disband. To do away with, to kill. He cashed the old souldiers, and supplied their roumes with yong beginners.
Cash⁴
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
Variant of Case. In the US adopted by German immigrants named Kirch and Kirsch.
proper noun Cashes
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- A male given name transferred from the surname. This ill-chosen subplot also means that Kingsolver must make Cash Stillwater (named for his mother's favorite singer, Johnny Cash) more than just a returning widower.
- A minor city in Craighead County, Arkansas; a corruption of Cache River.
- An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia, named after a sign "Cash or nothing".
- An unincorporated community in Hart County, Kentucky, named after a postmaster.
- A locale in Watertown Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, named after Edward Cash.
- A census-designated place in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, named after Col. E. B. Cash.
- An unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, named Cash after the name 'Money' was rejected by the Post Office.
CASH⁵
noun
- Acronym of calcium aluminium silicate hydrate
- Acronym of Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: cash in, immediate payment, currency, encashment, financial, capital, money, finance, cashflow, cheque, liquidity, income, account, monetary, accounting, revenue
Translations
Every language
noun money in the form of notes/bills and coins
| Español | efectivo, cash, guita, güita, numerario, dinero contante |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 현찰 hyeonchal, 현금 hyeon'geum, 캐시 kaesi |
| 日本語 | 現金 genkin, キャッシュ kyasshu |
| 中文 | 現錢 /现钱 xiànqián, 現金 /现金 xiànjīn, 現款 /现款 xiànkuǎn |
| हिन्दी | रोकड़ rokaṛ, कैश kaiś, भंजाना bhañjānā, नक़द naqad |
| Kiswahili | taslimu |
| Português | dinheiro, dinheiro vivo, caixa, numerário |
| Français | espèces, liquide, comptant |
| Deutsch | Bargeld, Bares, Cash |
| Italiano | contanti, liquidi |
| Ελληνικά | μετρητά metritá, ρευστό refstó, τοις μετρητοίς tois metritoís |
| Română | numerar, bani lichizi, bani gheață, bani peșin |
| Русский | нали́чные nalíčnyje, нали́чные де́ньги nalíčnyje dénʹgi, нали́чка nalíčka, нал nal, кэш kɛš, де́ньги dénʹgi |
| Tiếng Việt | tiền mặt |
| العربية | نَقْد naqd, نُقُود nuqūd |
| עברית | מזומן \ מְזֻמָּן mezumán |
verb to exchange (a check/cheque) for money
| Español | cobrar, abonar, canjear |
|---|---|
| Français | encaisser |
| Deutsch | einlösen |
| Italiano | incassare |
| Ελληνικά | εξαργυρώνω exargyróno |
| Română | încasa |
| Русский | обнали́чивать obnalíčivatʹ, обнали́чить obnalíčitʹ |
adj great, excellent, cool
| Deutsch | bar |
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