cash

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Meaning

1. Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
2. Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
3. (informal) Money.
4. Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
5. An instance of winning a cash prize.
6. A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

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/

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”).