cash
Forms
- Plural
- cashes
- Comparative
- more cash
- Superlative
- most cash
- present (v1)
- cash
- past (v2)
- cashed
- past participle (v3)
- cashed
- present participle
- cashing
- 3rd person singular
- cashes
Definitions
1.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.
2.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 […].
3.Money.(informal)
- Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.
4.Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
- Let me just bring these to the cash for you.
- 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.
1.To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
2.To obtain a payout from a tournament.(slang)
3.To disband. To do away with, to kill.
- He cashed the old souldiers, and supplied their roumes with yong beginners.
1.Great; excellent; cool.(slang)
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1665
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”).
Doublet of case, chase, and chasse.
Compare Spanish caja (“box”).