cash

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English[edit]

Cash depicted in the form of coins, banknotes, and moneybags.

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”),[1] ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).

Noun[edit]

cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)

  1. (uncountable) Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
    After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
    • 1810 July 13, William Cobbett, “To the Reader”, in Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume XVIII, number 1, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Richard Bagshaw, Brydges Street, Covent-Garden, and John Budd, Pall-Mall, published 14 July 1810, →OCLC, columns 13–14:
      When a man bargains for the price of maintaining such or such principles, or of endeavouring to make out such or such a case, without believing in the soundness of the principles or the truth of the case; such a man, whether he touch the cash (or paper-money) before or after the performance of his work, and whether he work with his tongue or his pen, may, I think be fairly charged with seeking after "base lucre;" […]
  2. (uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
    • 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist‎[2], volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
      Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […] .
  3. (uncountable, informal) Money.
    • 2017, Erin Lowry, Broke Millennial‎[3], page 146:
      Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.
  4. (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.
  5. (countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.
    • 2012, Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 2:
      In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.
  6. (countable, archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
    • 1787 [1764], Adam Anderson, quoting William Temple, An Historical And Chronological Deduction Of The Origin Of Commerce, From the Earliest Accounts‎[4], volume 1, page 236:
      This bank […] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money,
    • 1852, Theresa Lewis, quoting a letter from John More to Ralph Winwood, Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon‎[5], volume 2, page 321:
      She was said to have amassed a great sum of money for ill use ; 20,000l. are known to be in her cash ;
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • → Georgian: ქეში (keši)
  • → Japanese: キャッシュ (kyasshu)
  • → Korean: 캐시 (kaesi)
  • → Punjabi: ਕੈਸ਼ (kaiś)
  • → Russian: кэш (kɛš)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ке̏ш
    Latin script: kȅš
  • → Swedish: cash
  • → Wu: 開許／开许 (¹khe-shiu)
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Verb[edit]

cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)

  1. (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
  2. (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from the verb to cash
Translations[edit]

Adjective[edit]

cash (comparative more cash, superlative most cash)

  1. (slang) Great; excellent; cool.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “cash”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Tamil காசு (kācu).[1]

Noun[edit]

cash (plural cashes or cash)

  1. Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.
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References[edit]

  1. ^ “Yule, Henry, Sir. Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. New ed. edited by William Crooke, B.A. London: J. Murray, 1903.”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎[1], accessed 20 September 2019, archived from the original on 2020-12-17

Etymology 3[edit]

See cashier.

Verb[edit]

cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)

  1. To disband. To do away with, kill
    • 1564, Arthur Golding, Abridgment of the histories of Trogus Pompeius:
      He cashed the old souldiers, and supplied their roumes with yong beginners.

Anagrams[edit]

Aromanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cāseus. Compare Romanian caș.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cash n (plural cãshuri)

  1. cheese

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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English cash.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cash m (uncountable)

  1. (informal) cash

Adjective[edit]

cash (invariable, not comparable)

  1. (informal, of money) In coins and bills/notes.
    • Heb je cash geld? — Do you have cash?

Synonyms[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English cash. Doublet of caisse.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

cash

  1. (colloquial) in cash (of paying)
  2. (colloquial) bluntly, directly, straight up

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English cash.

Noun[edit]

cash n (uncountable)

  1. cash

Declension[edit]

declension of cash (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cash cashul
genitive/dative (unui) cash cashului
vocative cashule

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

cash m (uncountable)

  1. cash

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English cash. Attested since 1887.

Noun[edit]

cash c

  1. (colloquial) cash (money)
    Synonyms: kontanter, stålar, pengar

Usage notes[edit]

Slangier in the definite.

Declension[edit]

Declension of cash 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative cash cashen — —
Genitive cashs cashens — —

Adverb[edit]

cash (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) in cash
    Jag betalar cash
    I pay in cash
    Synonym: kontant

References[edit]

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