English Explanatory Dictionary

cash

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit 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. 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.
verb
  1. To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
  2. To obtain a payout from a tournament.
adj
  1. Great; excellent; cool.
noun
  1. The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.
  2. Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin.
verb
  1. To disband. To do away with, to kill.
name
  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
  4. A minor city in Craighead County, Arkansas; a corruption of Cache River.
  5. An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia, named after a sign "Cash or nothing".
  6. An unincorporated community in Hart County, Kentucky, named after a postmaster.
  7. A locale in Watertown Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, named after Edward Cash.
  8. A census-designated place in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, named after Col. E. B. Cash.
  9. An unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, named Cash after the name 'Money' was rejected by the Post Office.
noun
  1. Acronym of calcium aluminium silicate hydrate.
  2. Acronym of Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health.

Pronunciation

kăsh /kæʃ/ en-us-cash.ogg

Word forms

cash cashes cashing cashed more cash most cash

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”).

Synonyms

cash money cold hard cash

Related words

small, unmarked bills

Derived words

actual cash value ash cash cash advance cash and carry cash and carry trade Cash App cash-back cashback cash bar cash basis cashbook cashbox cash-box cash box cash boy cash card cash carrier cash cow cash crop cash desk cash dispenser cash drag cashectomy cash fag cash-fag cashfag cash flow cash-flow cash for crash cash game Cashgate cash grab cashgrab cash-in cash-in-hand cash in hand cash in one's chips cash instrument cash is king cash leakage cashless cashlessness cashlike cash limit cash machine cashmaster cash money cashola cash on delivery cash on the barrelhead cash on the barrel-head cash on the barrel head cash on the line cash-out cashout cashpoint cash point cash-poor cash poor cash position
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