cash

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   money in the form of bills or coins

   there is a desperate shortage of hard cash

2. 2
   verb

   to exchange for cash

   I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.

   Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […].

5. 5
   noun

   Money.

   Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.

6. 6
   noun

   Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.

   Let me just bring these to the cash for you.

7. 7
   noun

   An instance of winning a cash prize.

   In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.

8. 8
   noun

   A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

   This bank[…] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money,

Etymology

Variant 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.