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cash

See also: Cash and CASH

EnglishEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).

NounEdit

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[2], 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[3], 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.
  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[4], 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[5], 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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • → 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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See alsoEdit

VerbEdit

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.
  2. (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from the verb to cash
TranslationsEdit

AdjectiveEdit

cash (comparative more cash, superlative most cash)

  1. (slang) Great; excellent; cool.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “cash”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Etymology 2Edit

From Tamil காசு (kācu).[1]

NounEdit

cash (plural cashes or cash)

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

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ “Yule, Henry, Sir. Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. New ed. edited by William Crooke, B.A. London: J. Murray, 1903.”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎[1], accessed 20 September 2019, archived from the original on 2020-12-17

Etymology 3Edit

See cashier.

VerbEdit

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.

AnagramsEdit

AromanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin cāseus. Compare Romanian caș.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cash n (plural cãshuri)

  1. cheese

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Related termsEdit

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English cash.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cash m (uncountable)

  1. (informal) cash

AdjectiveEdit

cash (invariable, not comparable)

  1. (informal, of money) In coins and bills/notes.
    • Heb je cash geld? — Do you have cash?

SynonymsEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English cash. Doublet of caisse.

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

cash

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

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English cash.

NounEdit

cash n (uncountable)

  1. cash

DeclensionEdit

declension of cash (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cash cashul
genitive/dative (unui) cash cashului
vocative cashule

SpanishEdit

NounEdit

cash m (uncountable)

  1. cash

Derived termsEdit

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English cash. Attested since 1887.

NounEdit

cash c

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

Usage notesEdit

Slangier in the definite.

DeclensionEdit

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

AdverbEdit

cash (not comparable)

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

ReferencesEdit

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