cash
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Etymology 1 edit
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”),[1] ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
Noun edit
cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)
- (uncountable) Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
- After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
- 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:
- 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;" […]
- (uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
- 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist[1], volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
- Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […] .
- (uncountable, informal) Money.
- 2017, Erin Lowry, Broke Millennial[2], page 146:
- Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.
- (countable, Canada) Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
- Let me just bring these to the cash for you.
- 2017 December 30, Josh Freed, “Just you wait — technology might be the end of the line”, in Montreal Gazette, page A4, column 2:
- 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.
- (countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.
- 2012, Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 2:
- In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.
- (countable, archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
- 1787 [1764], Adam Anderson, quoting William Temple, An Historical And Chronological Deduction Of The Origin Of Commerce, From the Earliest Accounts[3], volume 1, page 236:
- This bank […] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money,
- 1852, Theresa Lewis, quoting a letter from John More to Ralph Winwood, Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon[4], volume 2, page 321:
- She was said to have amassed a great sum of money for ill use ; 20,000l. are known to be in her cash ;
Derived terms edit
- actual cash value
- ash cash
- cash advance
- cash and carry
- Cash App
- cashback
- cash-back
- cash bar
- cash basis
- cashbook
- cash-box
- cash box
- cash boy
- cash card
- cash carrier
- cash cow
- cash crop
- cash desk
- cash dispenser
- cash fag
- cash-fag
- cashfag (vulgar)
- cash flow
- cash-flow
- cash for crash
- cash game
- cash grab
- cash-in
- cash in hand
- cash-in-hand
- cash in one's chips
- cash instrument
- cash is king
- cash leakage
- cashless
- cashlessness
- cash limit
- cash machine
- cash money
- cash on delivery
- cash on the barrelhead
- cash on the barrel head
- cash on the barrel-head
- cash on the line
- cash-out
- cash point
- cash poor
- cash-poor
- cash position
- cash railway
- cash register
- cash rich
- cash solvent
- cash-starved
- cash strapped
- cash-strapped
- cash stuffing
- cashtag
- cash value
- cash wrap
- cold cash
- cold hard cash
- digital cash
- e-cash
- flash for cash
- flash the cash
- free cash flow
- hard cash
- near cash
- petty cash
- plum cash
- spot cash
- strapped for cash
- take the cash and let the credit go
- write checks one can't cash
- write cheques one can't cash
Descendants edit
- → Georgian: ქეში (keši)
- → Japanese: キャッシュ (kyasshu)
- → Korean: 캐시 (kaesi)
- → Punjabi: ਕੈਸ਼ (kaiś)
- → Russian: кэш (kɛš)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Swedish: cash
- → Wu: 開許/开许 (¹khe-shiu)
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Verb edit
cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)
- (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 247:
- 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.
- (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
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Adjective edit
cash (comparative more cash, superlative most cash)
- (slang) Great; excellent; cool.
References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “cash”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
cash (plural cashes or cash)
- Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.
Translations edit
References edit
- ^ Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “CASH”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 168.
Etymology 3 edit
See cashier.
Verb edit
cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)
- To disband. To do away with, kill
- 1564, Arthur Golding, Abridgment of the histories of Trogus Pompeius:
- He cashed the old souldiers, and supplied their roumes with yong beginners.
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin cāseus. Compare Romanian caș.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cash n (plural cãshuri)
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cash m (uncountable)
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cash (invariable, not comparable)
- (informal, of money) In coins and bills/notes.
- Heb je cash geld? — Do you have cash?
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English cash. Doublet of caisse.
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Adverb edit
cash
- (colloquial) in cash (of paying)
- (colloquial) bluntly, directly, straight up
Further reading edit
- “cash”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English cash.
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cash n (uncountable)
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Spanish edit
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cash m (uncountable)
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Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English cash. Attested since 1887.
Noun edit
cash c
- (colloquial) cash (money)
Usage notes edit
Slangier in the definite.
Declension edit
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Nominative | cash | cashen | — | — |
Genitive | cashs | cashens | — | — |
Adverb edit
cash (not comparable)
- (colloquial) in cash
- Synonym: kontant
- Jag betalar cash
- I pay in cash