cash
Meaning
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- Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
- Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
- (informal) Money.
- Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
- An instance of winning a cash prize.
- A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
Synonyms
hard cash
in cash
ready cash
hard currency
cash account
real money
immediate payment
turn into cash
unit of weight
convert into cash
turn into money
draw the money
cash transactions
bar money
cash payment
dry money
money down
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kæʃ/
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 *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
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