cash
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom 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
editcash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)
- (uncountable) Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit 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 and carry trade
- Cash App
- cash-back
- cashback
- cash bar
- cash basis
- cashbook
- cash box
- cashbox
- cash-box
- cash boy
- cash card
- cash carrier
- cash cow
- cash crop
- cash desk
- cash dispenser
- cashectomy
- cashfag (vulgar)
- cash-fag
- cash fag
- cash-flow
- cash flow
- cash for crash
- cash game
- Cashgate
- cashgrab
- cash grab
- 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 barrel-head
- cash on the barrel head
- cash on the barrelhead
- 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
Descendants
edit- → Armenian: քեշ (kʻeš)
- → 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)
Translations
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See also
editVerb
editcash (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.
Derived terms
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Adjective
editcash (comparative more cash, superlative most cash)
- (slang) Great; excellent; cool.
Translations
editReferences
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “cash”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Etymology 2
editVariant 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
editcash (plural cashes or cash)
- (historical) The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.
- (historical) Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin.
- 1896, Alexander Armstrong, In a Mule Litter to the Tomb of Confucius, pages 2-3:
- 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 700 cash per day when we rested from any cause.
Coordinate terms
edit- (Madras coin): half-dodee (5 cash), dodee (10 cash), pice (20 cash), fanam (80 cash), pagoda (3360 cash)
- (Travancore coin): chakram (16 cash), fanam (64 cash), rupee (448 cash)
Translations
editReferences
edit- “cash, n².”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “CASH”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 168.
Etymology 3
editSee cashier.
Verb
editcash (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.
Anagrams
editAromanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin cāseus. Compare Romanian caș.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcash n (plural cãshuri)
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editSee also
editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English cash. Doublet of kas.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcash m (uncountable)
Adjective
editcash (invariable, not comparable)
- (informal, of money) in coins and bills/notes
- Heb je cash geld? — Do you have cash?
Synonyms
editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English cash. Doublet of caisse.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editcash
- (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
editRomanian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English cash.
Noun
editcash n (uncountable)
Declension
editSpanish
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈkaʃ/ [ˈkaʃ]
- Rhymes: -aʃ
- IPA(key): (chiefly Spain) /ˈkas/ [ˈkas]
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: cash
Noun
editcash m (uncountable)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cash”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
Swedish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English cash. Attested since 1887.
Noun
editcash c
- (colloquial) cash (money)
- 2025 February 8, Mark Brotherhood, 09:02 from the start, in Charlotte Rieback, transl., Ludwig – pusseldetektiven[5], season 1, episode 3 (subtitles; overall work in English), spoken by DS Alice Finch (Izuka Hoyle):
- Halshaw junior åker in och ut på rehab, krockar sportbilar och grips ofta med väskor med cash han inte kan redogöra för.
- Halshaw junior is in and out of rehab, smashes up sports cars and is often arrested with bags of cash he can't account for.
Usage notes
editSlangier in the definite.
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | cash | cashs |
definite | cashen | cashens | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
Adverb
editcash (not comparable)
- (colloquial) in cash
- Synonym: kontant
- Jag betalar cash
- I pay in cash
References
edit- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/æʃ
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-
- English terms borrowed from Middle French
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Occitan
- English terms derived from Latin
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- en:Gambling
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- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English indeclinable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Money
- Aromanian terms inherited from Latin
- Aromanian terms derived from Latin
- Aromanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Aromanian lemmas
- Aromanian nouns
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- Dutch terms borrowed from English
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- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aʃ
- Rhymes:Spanish/aʃ/1 syllable
- Rhymes:Spanish/as
- Rhymes:Spanish/as/1 syllable
- Spanish lemmas
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- Spanish uncountable nouns
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- Swedish terms borrowed from English
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