Cash

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Cash, n. [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See Case a box.].

•  A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.  [1913 Webster]

  "This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money."  [1913 Webster]

  "£20,000 are known to be in her cash."  [1913 Webster]
•  Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money  [1913 Webster]

Cash account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand. -- Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.] -- Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or house, having given security for repayment, draws at pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed upon; -- called also bank credit and cash account. -- Cash sales, sales made for ready, money, in distinction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction.

Syn. -- Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.

Cash, v. t. 

 To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.  [1913 Webster]

Cash, v. t. [See Cashier.].

 To disband.  Garges.  [1913 Webster]

Cash, n. sing. & pl. 

 A Chinese coin.  [1913 Webster]
" In 1913 the cash (Chinese tsien) was the only current coin made by the chinese government. It is a thin circular disk of a very base alloy of copper, with a square hole in the center. 1,000 to 1,400 cash were equivalent to a dollar."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Cash, n. & v.
--n.
1 money in coins or notes, as distinct from cheques or orders.
2 (also cash down) money paid as full payment at the time of purchase, as distinct from credit.
3 colloq. wealth.
--v.tr. give or obtain cash for (a note, cheque, etc.).

Idiom

cash and carry
1 a system of wholesaling in which goods are paid for in cash and taken away by the purchaser.
2 a store where this system operates. cash-book a book in which receipts and payments of cash are recorded. cash crop a crop produced for sale, not for use as food etc. cash desk a counter or compartment in a shop where goods are paid for. cash dispenser an automatic machine from which customers of a bank etc. may withdraw cash, esp. by using a cashcard. cash flow the movement of money into and out of a business, as a measure of profitability, or as affecting liquidity. cash in 1 obtain cash for.
2 colloq. (usu. foll. by on) profit (from); take advantage (of).
3 pay into a bank etc.
4 (in full cash in one's checks) colloq. die. cash on delivery a system of paying the carrier for goods when they are delivered. cash register a machine in a shop etc. with a drawer for money, recording the amount of each sale, totalling receipts, etc. cash up Brit. count and check cash takings at the end of a day's trading.

Derivative

cashable adj. cashless adj.

Cash, n. (pl. same) hist. any of various small coins of China or the E. Indies.

Etymology

ult. f. Port. ca(i)xa f. Tamil kasu f. Skr. karsha

THESAURUS

Cash

COD, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, amortization, amortizement, and pence, available funds, balance in hand, banknotes, bills, binder, bread, cash down, cash in, cash in hand, cash on delivery, cash payment, cash supply, change, circulating medium, clearance, coin, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, convert into cash, currency, debt service, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, dollars, dough, down, down payment, earnest, earnest money, emergency money, exchange, filthy lucre, fractional currency, gelt, gold, hard cash, hard currency, hard money, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, immediate resources, installment, installment plan, interest payment, jack, legal tender, liquid assets, liquidate, liquidation, lolly, loot, lucre, mammon, managed currency, mazuma, medium of exchange, mintage, money, money down, money in hand, monthly payments, moolah, necessity money, never-never, notes, on call, on demand, pay COD, pay at sight, pay cash, pay cash down, pay in advance, pay spot cash, pay-as-you-go, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, pelf, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, prepayment, quarterly payments, quittance, ready, ready money, realize, regular payments, remittance, retirement, satisfaction, scratch, scrip, sell, settlement, shekels, shillings, silver, sinking-fund payment, soft currency, specie, spot cash, sterling, strictly cash, the almighty dollar, the ready, the wherewith, the wherewithal, treasury, wampum, weekly payments

ROGET THESAURUS

Cash

Money

N money, legal tender, money matters, money market, finance, accounts, funds, treasure, capital, stock, assets, wealth, supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash, mammon, dough, cabbage, money-like instruments, M, M, sum, amount, balance, balance sheet, sum total, proceeds, currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash, dollar, sterling coin, pounds shillings and pence, Ls, d, pocket, breeches pocket, purse, money in hand, cash at hand, ready money, ready cash, slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough, rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink, argent comptant, bottom dollar, buzzard dollar, checks, dibs, double eagle, eagle, Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency, Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate, gold certificate, long bit, short bit, moss, nickel, pile, pin money, quarter, red cent, roanoke, rock, seawan, seawant, thousand dollars, grand, single, one-dollar bill, two- dollar bill, five-dollar bill, fiver, fin, Lincoln, ten-dollar bill, sawbuck, twenty-dollar bill, Jackson, double sawbuck, fifty-dollar bill, hundred-dollar bill, C-note, penny, cent, Lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper, two-cent piece three-cent piece, half- dime, nickel, buffalo nickel, V nickel, dime, disme, mercury dime, quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, Eisenhower dollar, Susan B, Anthony dollar, precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget, petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea, rouleau, wampum, good sum, round sum, lump sum, power of money, plum, lac of rupees, major coin, crown, minor coin, monetarist, monetary theory, numismatics, chrysology, numismatist, paper money, greenback, major denomination, minor denomination, money order, postal money order, Post Office order, bank note, bond, bill, bill of exchange, order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, assignat, blueback, hundi, shinplaster, note, note of hand, promissory note, I O U, draft, check, cheque, back-dated check, negotiable order of withdrawal, NOW, remittance, credit, liability, drawer, drawee, obligor, obligee, moneyer, coiner, false money, bad money, base coin, flash note, slip, kite, fancy stocks, Bank of Elegance, argumentum ad crumenam, letter of credit, circulation, multiplier effect, inflation, double-digit inflation, hyperinflation, erosion of the currency, debasement of the currency, deflation, stagflation, exchange rate, rate of exchange, floating exchange rates, fixed rates, currency counter, currency exchange, bureau de change, gold-backed currency, gold standard, silver standard, bank account, savings account, checking account, money market account, NOW account, time deposit, deposit, demand deposit, super NOW account, certificate of deposit, CD, $, US$, Y, A$, Federal Reserve Bank, central bank, Federal Reserve Board, board of governors of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, Secret Service, mint, bureau of engraving, seigniorage, counterfeit, funny money, bogus money, (falsehood), interest, interest rate, discount rate, monetary, pecuniary, crumenal, fiscal, financial, sumptuary, numismatic, numismatical, sterling, nummary, barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives, but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that, Gelt regiert die Welt, money rules the world, money makes the world go round, nervos belli pecuniam infinitam, redet Geld so schweigt die Welt, money is the mother's milk of politics, money is the root of all evil, money isn't everything, as phony as a three-dollar bill, don't take any wooden nickels.

Payment

VB pay, defray, make payment, paydown, pay on the nail, pay ready money, pay at sight, pay in advance, cash, honor a bill, acknowledge, redeem, pay in kind, pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing, pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs, do the needful, shell out, fork out, cough up, fork over, come down with, come down with the dust, tickle the palm, grease the palm, expend, put down, lay down, discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of, foot the bill, account with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with, strike a balance, settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts with, quit scores, wipe off old scores, clear off old scores, satisfy, pay in full, satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands, clear, liquidate, pay up, pay old debts, disgorge, make repayment, repay, refund, reimburse, retribute, make compensation, pay by credit card, put it on the plastic.