See also: Cash and CASH

English edit

 
Cash depicted in the form of coins, banknotes, and moneybags.

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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)

  1. (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;" []
  2. (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 [] .
  3. (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.
  4. (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.
  5. (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.
  6. (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 ;
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Descendants edit
  • Georgian: ქეში (keši)
  • Japanese: キャッシュ (kyasshu)
  • Korean: 캐시 (kaesi)
  • Punjabi: ਕੈਸ਼ (kaiś)
  • Russian: кэш (kɛš)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ке̏ш
    Latin script: kȅš
  • 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)

  1. (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.
  2. (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
Derived terms edit
Terms derived from the verb to cash
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Adjective edit

cash (comparative more cash, superlative most cash)

  1. (slang) Great; excellent; cool.

References edit

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “cash”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Etymology 2 edit

From Tamil காசு (kācu).[1]

Noun edit

cash (plural cashes or cash)

  1. Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.
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References edit

  1. ^ 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)

  1. 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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Etymology edit

From Latin cāseus. Compare Romanian caș.

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cash n (plural cãshuri)

  1. cheese

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from English cash.

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cash m (uncountable)

  1. (informal) cash

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cash (invariable, not comparable)

  1. (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

  1. (colloquial) in cash (of paying)
  2. (colloquial) bluntly, directly, straight up

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Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English cash.

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cash n (uncountable)

  1. cash

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cash m (uncountable)

  1. cash

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Swedish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English cash. Attested since 1887.

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cash c

  1. (colloquial) cash (money)
    Synonyms: kontanter, stålar, pengar

Usage notes edit

Slangier in the definite.

Declension edit

Declension of cash 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative cash cashen
Genitive cashs cashens

Adverb edit

cash (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) in cash
    Synonym: kontant
    Jag betalar cash
    I pay in cash

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