cash

[Cash]

United States country music singer and songwriter (1932 2003)

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

Noun
prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check

Noun
money in the form of bills or coins

Verb
exchange for cash; "I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail"


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

n.
Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money

n.
Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.

v. t.
To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.

v. t.
To disband.

n.sing & pl.
A Chinese coin.


Cash

Cash , n. [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See Case a box.] A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. [Obs.]
This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money.
'9c20,000 are known to be in her cash.
2. (Com.) (a) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money. (b) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. Cash account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand. -- Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.] -- Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or house, having given security for repayment, draws at pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed upon; -- called also bank credit and cash account. -- Cash sales, sales made for ready, money, in distinction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction. Syn. -- Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.

Cash

Cash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cashed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Casing.] To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.

Cash

Cash, v. t. [See Cashier.] To disband. [Obs.] Garges.

Cash

Cash, n.sing & pl. A Chinese coin. &hand; The cash (Chinese tsien) is the only current coin made by the chinese government. It is a thin circular disk of a very base alloy of copper, with a square hole in the center. 1,000 to 1,400 cash are equivalent to a dollar.

Cashbook

Cash"book , n. (Bookkeeping) A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.

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

To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.

To disband.

A Chinese coin.

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Usage Examples

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

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Other Usage Examples

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.

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