cash
See also: Cash
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: kăsh, IPA(key): /kæʃ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æʃ
- Homophone: cache
Etymology 1
From Middle French caisse (“money box”), from Old Occitan caissa, from Old Italian cassa, from Latin capsa (“box, case”), from capiō (“I take, I seize, I receive”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grasp”).
Noun
cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)
- 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 1013264609, 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;" […]
- (informal) Money.
- 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
- Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […] .
-
- (Canada) Cash register.
- (archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
Derived terms
Terms derived from cash (noun)
Translations
money in the form of notes/bills and coins
|
|
See also
Verb
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.
- (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
Derived terms
Translations
to exchange (a check/cheque) for money
Etymology 2
From Tamil காசு (kācu), from Malayalam കാശ് (kāśŭ)
Noun
cash (plural cash)
- Any of several low-denomination coins of India or China, especially the Chinese copper coin.
Translations
Etymology 3
See cashier.
Verb
cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)
- To disband.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Garges to this entry?)
Anagrams
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- cashu
Etymology
Noun
cash n (plural cãshuri)
Derived terms
- cãshirlichi
- cãshat
Related terms
See also
- cãshcãval
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛʃ/
Audio (file)
Noun
cash m, f (uncountable)
Adjective
cash (invariable, not comparable)
- (of money) In coins and bills/notes.
- Heb je cash geld? — Do you have cash?
Synonyms
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʃ/
Adverb
cash
- (colloquial) in cash (of paying)
- (colloquial) straight up (abruptly)
Further reading
- “cash” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
This article is issued from
Wiktionary.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.