cash
/ˈkæʃ/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun
Forms cashes cashing cashed
- noun (uncountable) Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions. “How are you off for cash? After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.”
- noun (uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
- noun (uncountable, informal) Money.
- noun (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.”
- noun (countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.
- noun (countable, archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
- verb (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
- verb (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
- adjective (slang) Great; excellent; cool.
- noun (historical) The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.
- noun (historical) Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin.
- verb To disband. To do away with, to kill.
- proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.
- proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
- proper noun A minor city in Craighead County, Arkansas; a corruption of Cache River.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia, named after a sign "Cash or nothing".
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Hart County, Kentucky, named after a postmaster.
- proper noun A locale in Watertown Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, named after Edward Cash.
- proper noun A census-designated place in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, named after Col. E. B. Cash.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, named Cash after the name 'Money' was rejected by the Post Office.
Synonyms
cash money cold hard cash hard cash hard currency immediate payment Johnny Cash John Cash cash in
Antonyms
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”).
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.
See cashier.
Variant of Case. In the US adopted by German immigrants named Kirch and Kirsch.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. [Obs.]
- noun (a) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money.
- verb To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
- verb To disband. [Obs.] Garges.
Etymology [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See Case a box.]
Etymology [See Cashier.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “cash”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details