cash

• enPR: kăsh, IPA^(key): /kæʃ/

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• Rhymes: -æʃ
• Homophone: cache

From Middle French caisse (“money box”), from Old Occitan caissa, from Old Italian cassa, from Latin capsa (“box, case”), from capiō (“I take, I seize, I receive”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grasp”).

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 1013264609, 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, informal) Money.
   • 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:

     Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […] .

3. (countable, Canada) Cash register.
4. (countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.
   • 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.

5. (countable, archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Sir W. Temple

     This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Sir R. Winwood

     £20,000 are known to be in her cash.

• small, unmarked bills

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.

cash (comparative more cash, superlative most cash)

1. (slang) Great; excellent; cool.

From Tamil காசு (kācu), from Malayalam കാശ് (kāśŭ)

cash (plural cashes or cash)

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

See cashier.

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

1. To disband.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Garges to this entry?)

• ACHs, CAHs, Chas, HCAs, achs, cahs

• cashu

From Latin cāseus. Compare Romanian caș.

cash n (plural cãshuri)

1. cheese

• cãshirlichi
• cãshat

• cãshar
• cãshari

• cãshcãval

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cash m or f (uncountable)

1. cash

cash (invariable, not comparable)

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

• baar

From English cash.

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cash

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

• “cash” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• chas