cashn.1
/kaʃ/, U.S. /kæʃ/ a. A chest or box for money; a cash-box, till.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun]
boxc1300
packa1393
money coffer1525
money box1585
cashc1595
kista1625
shuttle1626
money chest1683
lob1718
cash-chest1719
bank coffer1797
casket1832
cash-box1834
Peter1859
c1595 T. Maynarde Sir Francis Drake his Voy. (1849) 12 The inhabitants havinge intelligence of our cominge, had..hid theyr treasure in casshes.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes
1611 Sir J. More Let. 18 June in E. Sawyer Mem. Affairs of State (1725) III. 281 Pounds 20000 are known to be in her Cash.
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A Marchant's cash, casse de marchand.
1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces ii. 84 This Bank is properly a general Cash, where every man lodges his money.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xli. 342 They had..emptied their own Cashes and Coffers of..Coin.
1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 286 He always carried a Cash on Purpose for them [sc. the beggars].
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun]
sumc1300
sumc1300
so muchc1384
quantity1405
sum in gross (also in great)1421
summa?a1425
amount1450
sold1513
bankc1530
quantum1602
cash1677
amt.1744
figure1842
a bit1894
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 20 As the Land and Personal Security is at this day, no living man..can take a great Cash into his hands, and pay six in the hundred for it.
1707 C. N. Poem Union Eng. & Scotl. 19 A flowing Cash, an Universal Trade.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 233 There was a considerable cash in his hands, partly for the pay of his men.
1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 372 No merchant thinks it necessary to keep by him any considerable cash.
2. Money; in the form of coin, ready money.figurative.a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 190 He had the most learning in ready cash of any he ever knew.† c. Minted coin, current coin. Obsolete.
a. Formerly in literary and general use; but now only commercial (see 2b), or consciously used as a sort of commercial slang.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun]
mintOE
moneya1325
coin1393
ready money1429
plate?a1439
coinage1467
cunyec1480
cogc1555
table money1565
chinks1577
cash1596
speciesa1618
spetia1620
specie1671
coliander seed1699
coriander-seed1737
shiners1760
jinkc1775
decimal coinage1794
coriander1801
hard currency1816
rowdy1831
Oscar Asche1905
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O2v He put his hand in his pocket but..not to pluck out anie cash.
1661 M. Nedham Short Hist. Eng. Rebell. 48 For a twelve months cash.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 188 A Thief bent to unhoord the cash Of some rich Burgher. View more context for this quotation
1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland ii. 98 There was a great cash and many Jewels in the House.
1724 J. Swift Some Observ. Wood's Half-pence 18 Very near as much as the Current Cash of the Kingdom in those Days.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xlv. 149 Bees-wax is the current Cash in that Country.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. iii. 201 Where's the cash? Who's to pay the piper?
1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. iii. xv. 124 The quantity of circulating cash in different nations.
1810 A. Boswell Edinburgh 15 Those who have cash..come here to spend.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 231 Let but some individual, with the head and the cash, try the experiment.
b. As a term of banking and commerce, used to signify, in its strictest sense, specie; also, less strictly, bank-notes which can at once be converted into specie, and are therefore taken as ‘cash’, in opposition to bills or other securities. Also in the phrases ready cash, cash in hand. cash on delivery: applied to the forwarding of goods to order, payment being made to the carrier or postman when the goods are delivered. Abbreviated C.O.D.hard cash: see the first element.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun] > ready money or cash
ready money1429
argent-contentc1540
bitec1555
present money1572
chink1580
cash1600
bit1607
real money1675
fob?c1680
Darby1682
ready1684
blunt1819
makeready1830
hardshells1840
ante1843
spot cash1855
call money1856
necessary1897
society > trade and finance > payment > [phrase] > to be paid for by recipient
cash on delivery1851
collect1893
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 110 Nim. I shall haue my noble? Pist. In cash most truly paid.
1641 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 4 Aug. 21 244 The 103300ɫi ready cash to be paid towarde the 80000ɫi.
1696 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 100 Only bills or notes, and not cash.
1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 512/1 He had then but little cash in hand.
1782 T. Pickering in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) III. 512 These notes are not received there as cash, but only as pledges.
1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1528 On and after the 1st October next, the Bank will be ready to pay cash for their notes of every description, dated prior to the 1st Jan. 1817.
1851 Illustr. London News 11 Oct. 442/2 One Sydney merchant has sold one ton of flour..for £70, cash on delivery.
1852 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce Cash, in commerce, means the ready money, bills, drafts, bonds, and all immediately negotiable paper in an individual's possession.
1885 Manch. Examiner 21 July 5/2 To pay down the price in ready cash.
1904 Daily Chron. 13 Apr. 6/3 The cash-on-delivery system of transmitting goods by parcel post.
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1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket v. 205 To buy..leaden trash, with golden cash.
1691 J. Locke Money in Wks. (1727) II. 92 The current Cash being..computed..to want half its Standard Weight.
1691 J. Locke Lower. Interest 93 Clipping had left none but light running cash.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. xv. 60 A few cropt Pieces of White Cash.
d. It is also the regular term for ‘money’ in Book-keeping. See cash-account n. at Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
scata1122
spense?c1225
spendinga1290
sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
gilt1497
argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
scruff1559
the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
trasha1592
quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
cash1646
grig1657
spanker1663
cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
brad1819
pogue1819
rent1823
stumpy1828
posh1830
L. S. D.1835
rivetc1835
tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
ochre1846
dingbat1848
dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
rust1858
soap1860
sugar1862
coin1874
filthy1876
wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
oof1885
mon1888
Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
1646 Ordinance for Selling Lands of Bishops 21 The said treasurers or their Clerke to the Cash.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. §131 The entry of a person as debtor to cash does not constitute an obligation, but is evidence of an obligation.
e. Phrases. out of cash, in cash.
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the mind > possession > poverty > in impoverished state [phrase] > lacking money
out of cash1593
out of stock1648
stump1828
nary red1849
to be in the hole1890
society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > in possession of money [phrase]
in pocket1751
in cash1753
cash1940
1593 G. Peele Famous Chron. King Edward the First sig. H Now the Frier is out of cash fiue Nobles, God knowes how he shall come into cash againe.
1609 S. Rowlands Dr. Merrie-man 23 If once I doe begin perceiue That out of cash they bee.
1753 Extracts Trial J. Stewart in Scots Mag. Sept. 445/2 He was not in cash, and could not send the five pounds.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 30 With his credit when he is out of cash.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxix. 111 He bets..freely when he is in cash.
f. cash down n. (down adv. 7a): ready money. Originally U.S.
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > cash-payment
legem pone?1520
numeration1563
cash down1800
cash-payment1803
1722 P. Lloyd Let. 28 July in Publ. Maryland Hist. Soc. (1894) No. 34. 31 A Reserve was made of Allmost all the Lands upon the Western shore, for the Value of £120 Cash pd downe.]
1800 Green's Impartial Observer I. 29 Nov. 4 (advt.) I have for sale..a few Negroes, for Cotton or Cash down.
1817 Cummings & Hilliard Let. 22 July in Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. 1938 (1939) XLVIII. 38 We now address you to ascertain on what terms you would sell us six terrestrial, & one celestial globe, that is—for what each, cash down.
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature II. iv. 111 What's the price..cash down on the nail?
1907 I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 238 You should have made it a rule—cash down.
g. cash and carry, a system whereby the purchaser pays cash for goods and takes them away himself. Usually attributive. Also elliptical, a shop or supermarket operating on this system. spec. used with reference to purchases of arms from the U.S. in the period immediately before 1941. Also, cash and carry away. Originally U.S.
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society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > uplift by buyer on payment of cash
cash and carry1917
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop
show shop1787
lock-up shop1795
cash-store1811
boat shop1813
slaughter shop1841
slaughterhouse1851
ticket-shop1851
charity shop1853
magic shop1853
company store1872
Army and Navy1878
five-and-ten1880
farthing-shop1889
funeral home1895
goodwill1916
shop-within-(a)-shop1916
cash and carry1917
Piggly Wiggly1917
poverty shop1948
discount house1949
anchor1960
box store1976
mom-and-pop1976
op shop1978
duty-free1980
pound shop1983
pop-up2000
society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] > cash and carry (of arms bought from U.S.)
cash and carry1937
1917 Ladies' Home Jrnl. July 27/3 I would recommend to every woman that you follow the ‘cash and carry’ plan of buying in preference to the ‘credit and delivery’ plan.
1921 Dial. Notes 5 112.
1922 S. Lewis Babbitt iv. 48 One of these cash-and-carry chain stores.
1927 Mag. of Business July 35/1 I located my store in a veritable nest of ‘cash and carries’.
1930 Economist 24 May 1178/2 Marks and Spencer, being a ‘cash and carry’ concern, is liquid in every respect.
1937 Ann. Reg. 1936 294 The President should be given some measure of discretion to permit, say, the victims of aggression to buy, pay for, and transport at their own risk such supplies, not actually munitions of war, which they might need. This policy was described by its proponents as the ‘cash and carry’ policy.
1940 Ann. Reg. 1939 308 It [sc. a Bill of U.S. Senate] permitted the country to sell arms to belligerents on a ‘cash-and-carry’ basis.
1962 H. O. Beecheno Introd. Business Stud. xi. 101 These [discount] shops restrict themselves to selling goods on a cash-and-carry-away basis.
1970 Times 16 Mar. 15 The number of cash and carries has grown from 398 in 1967 to 610 at the end of the year.
3. Applied adjectively to (a) commodities purchasable for cash, (b) tradesmen or commercial houses doing business for ready money only. Cf. cash-sale n. at Compounds 2, etc., above.
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society > trade and finance > buying > [adjective] > able to be bought > for cash
cash1875
society > trade and finance > [adjective] > trading > for cash
cash1903
1875 Chicago Tribune 13 Sept. 6/1 A large Premium on Cash Pork, Wheat and Corn.
1898 Daily News 15 June 6/2 Mr. Armour to-day bought all Mr. Leiter's cash wheat in the north-west.
1903 Daily Chron. 7 Apr. 5/2 Cash Dispensing Chemists.
1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 80 Turned my modest penny Over on Boot's Cash Chemist's counter.
1958 Economist 18 Oct. 265/1 The continued recovery in copper has now brought cash metal in London to £241 a ton.
Compounds
C1. Generalattributive.
cash-article n.
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1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 339 But a man was a cash article there.
cash-box n.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun]
boxc1300
packa1393
money coffer1525
money box1585
cashc1595
kista1625
shuttle1626
money chest1683
lob1718
cash-chest1719
bank coffer1797
casket1832
cash-box1834
Peter1859
1834 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 3 149/1 Tills, or cash-boxes in counters, are now..banished from the higher class of the trading community in London.
1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 85 That on the cash-box watchful sits.
cash-catcher n.
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a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccxcviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 175 Cash-catchers is a Trade to ravish Clownes.
cash-chest n.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun]
boxc1300
packa1393
money coffer1525
money box1585
cashc1595
kista1625
shuttle1626
money chest1683
lob1718
cash-chest1719
bank coffer1797
casket1832
cash-box1834
Peter1859
1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 335 It [money] must lie dead in the Cash-Chest.
cash customer n.
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society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > customer or client > types of customer
free-luncher1870
cash customer1879
sitter1890
account1929
wrap-up1938
personal caller1966
pick-your-owner1969
1879 Birmingh. Weekly Post 8 Feb. 1/4 The same discount that most tradesmen will gladly allow to a cash customer.
cash-girl n.
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1880 Harper's Mag. June 37/1 The cash-girls are paid a dollar and a half a week.
a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 78 I was a cash-girl and a wrapper and then a shop girl.
cash-remittance n.
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1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking vii. 143 The employment of bills in the discharge of debts, whereby cash remittances are avoided.
C2. † cash-house n. Obsolete a counting-house.† cash-weight n. Obsolete (see quot.).
cash-account n. (see quot. 1852).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > cash-account
chest1588
cash-account1768
1768 J. Wedgwood Let. 13 June in Sel. Lett. (1965) 65 Your Cash Account is much wanted.
1786 R. Burns Poems 88 I might, by this, hae..strutted in a Bank and clarket My Cash-Account.
1852 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce Cash account, in book-keeping, an account to which nothing but cash is carried on the one hand, and from which all the disbursements of the concern are drawn on the other... Cash account, in banking, is the name given to the account of the advances made by a banker in Scotland, to an individual who has given security for their repayment.
1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk ii. 59 Claude has just accepted me like a debit item Always in his cash account.
cash-book n. in Book-keeping, a book in which is entered a record of cash paid and received.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > other types of account book
journal1540
bankers' book1585
shop book?1594
waste-book1613
cash-book1622
counter-book1622
pay-book1622
copybook1660
audit-booka1680
bankbook1682
transfer-book1694
malt-book1710
pay list1757
petty cash book1827
passbook1833
stock book1835
guard book1839
tommy book1841
bought-book1849
in-clearing book1872
out-clearing book1882
out-book1884
trial-book1890
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 371 To keepe an orderly Cash Booke of all the moneys receiued and payed out.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 410 The Roman account-book, he supposes, was essentially a Cash-book.
cash-boy n. in large shops, a boy who carries the money received by the salesman from a customer to the cashier, and brings back the change.
cashcard n. a card card n.2 19 issued by a bank etc., to a depositor, which allows money to be drawn from a cash-dispensing machine.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > cashcard
cashcard1967
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [adjective] > cashcard
cashcard1967
1967 Bankers' Mag. 204 274/2 Following ‘Barclaycash’..and the Westminster's ‘cash dispenser service’..the National Provincial has started up its ‘cash cards’ dispenser—like the others good for £10 when inserted into a machine located outside a branch.
1969 Times 1 Apr. 6/2 (advt.) Go to a branch with a cash dispenser in the wall. You pop in your cashcard. Tap out your number. And the money's yours.
1984 Business Rev. Weekly 14 Apr. 96/2 The building societies' card..gives access to about 250 cashcard ATMs throughout Australia.
cash carrier n. U.S. a device employed in shops by which money is carried in a receptacle running on a line between the cash-desk and the several counters.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > device for carrying money > [noun]
cash carrier1889
1889 Cent. Dict. Cash-carrier.
1903 G. Ade In Babel 18 He had thought out an overhead cash-carrier of the kind used in retail stores.
cash conveyer n. = cash carrier n.
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1902 Bldgs. World's Columbian Expos. 2/1 The Transportation exhibits..range..from a cash conveyor to a balloon.
cash-credit n. (see quot. 1866).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of accounts
calends of exchangec1374
scorea1400
pipe1455
mensalc1475
profit and loss1553
stock1588
bank account1671
lump-account1699
revenue account1703
profit and loss account1721
sundry1736
drawing account1737
stock account?1768
private account1772
trading account1780
Flemish account1785
capital account1813
embankment1813
cost account1817
cash-credit1832
current account1846
savings account1850
deposit account1851
suspense account1869
control account1908
checking account1923
ghost account1933
numbered account1963
budget account1969
ISA1975
MSA1993
1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 14 July 186/2 It is now a hundred and three years since the first cash credit was instituted.
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking iii. 76 Over~drawn accounts, or, as they are sometimes called, ‘cash-credits’.
cash-crop n. originally U.S. a crop cultivated primarily for its commercial value (opposed to one for subsistence, etc.).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > cash-crop
money crop1867
cash-crop1869
1869 Rep. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1868 18 Wheat is a cash crop, and demands a small outlay of labor.
1934 F. R. Irvine Text-bk. W. Afr. Agric. p. vii, (heading) Cash Crops.
1937 Geogr. Jrnl. 90 75 This grafting of cash-crop production on subsistence agriculture in tribal communities.
1942 Rep. Comm. Land Utilisation in Rural Areas 5 Cash crops are crops sold directly off the farm, as opposed to those used on the farm.
cash-crop v. [as a back-formation]
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivate plants or crops [verb (transitive)] > cash-crop
cash-crop1960
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 Mar. 91/1 Try to reduce the acreage per cow to 1½ and cash-crop what you save.
cash-cropping n.
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1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Apr. 365/2 Peas and potatoes also play an important part in the cash-cropping programme.
1957 M. Gluckman in V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society p. xiii The development of wage-earning and cash-cropping.
cash desk n. in a shop, restaurant, etc., a desk or counter at which the customer pays.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-fittings > payment desk in shops, restaurants, etc.
cash desk1904
payout1977
1904 A. Bennett Jrnl. 14 July (1932) I. 187 One café..was open. The stout lady in the cash-desk seemed just as usual.
1962 E. Godfrey Retail Selling & Organization ix. 86 In some shops customers are asked to take the money to the cash desk and return to the counter to collect the parcel.
1983 Financial Times 11 Apr. iii. p. xi They are linked throughout the operation—from goods received through to despatch or the trade buyer at the cash desk.
cash dispenser n. an automatic machine from which bank (building society, etc.) customers may withdraw cash, esp. from a current account; = automated teller machine n. at automated adj. Compounds.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > cash dispenser
money teller1594
cash machine1890
bank machine1920
teller machine1921
automatic teller1924
automatic teller machine1967
cash dispenser1967
automated teller machine1973
cashpoint1973
money machine1973
ATM1975
hole-in-the-wall1985
1967 Banker Apr. 351/1 (caption) Chubb's cash dispenser.
1984 Financial Times 5 June iv. p. v Nixdorf..is the biggest supplier to the European banking market (of cash dispensers, automatic teller systems and the like).
cash flow n. the flow of money, as receipts and payments into and out of a business, esp. considered as a measure of liquidity or profitability; spec. (North American) the net income of a company plus allowances for depreciation, etc.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > income of a company
cash flow1954
franked income1955
billing1958
1954 Harvard Business Rev. Jan. 128/1 ‘Discounted cash flow’..computes rate of return as the maximum interest rate which could be paid on the capital tied up over the life of the investment without dipping into earnings produced elsewhere in the company.
1954 Harvard Business Rev. Jan. 128/2 The mechanics of the cash-flow method consist essentially of finding the interest rate that discounts future earnings of a project down to a present value equal to the project cost.
1964 Financial Times 12 Mar. 10/4 Our gross cash flow from operations has increased considerably, to $3,293,600 or $2.48 per share, as against $2.22 the previous year.
1975 J. De Bres tr. E. Mandel Late Capitalism vii. 230 Financial analysts now increasingly employ the concept of cash-flow to judge the solidity of a corporation—a notion which refers to the sum of profits and depreciation charges.
1985 A. Blond Book Bk. iii. 37 Faber's cash flow has been helped by what they have received from the musical Cats.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > counting house
counterc1386
counting-housec1440
cash-house1633
accounting house1705
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 11) 233 The oppressour doth more hurt sitting silently in his cash-house.
cash-keeper n. one who has charge of cash, a treasurer, a cashier.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money > one who has charge of cash
cashier1596
cash-keeper1626
1626 T. Scott Sir Walter Rawleighs Ghost in Harl. Misc. (1809) III. 539 Gondomar..chief cash-keeper for the order of Alcantara.
1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy i. ii Her Cash-Keeper's out of humour, he says he has no money.
cash-nexus n. a relationship constituted by, and usually consisting solely in, monetary transactions; also attributive.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money matters > exclusive regard to > relationship constituted by
cash-nexus1855
1839 T. Carlyle Chartism vi. 58 Cash Payment had not then grown to be the universal sole nexus of man to man.]
1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xxvi. 353 My only wish is to have the opportunity of cultivating some intercourse with the hands beyond the mere ‘cash nexus’.
1904 Society in New Reign iv. 93 London is a European suburb, united by a cash nexus to New York.
1936 C. Day Lewis Friendly Tree ii. xiii. 193 I'm bound to them by a cash-nexus. They paid for my ticket down here.
cash-payment n. payment in ready money, spec. the payment of cash for government paper money or bank-notes.
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > cash-payment
legem pone?1520
numeration1563
cash down1800
cash-payment1803
1803 Edinb. Rev. 2 102 The statute of 1797 for stopping the cash-payments.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. xii. 368 When the currency recovered its value, and cash payments were resumed.
1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 35 Iron money could not be used in cash payments at the present day.
cashpoint n. = cash dispenser n. above; frequently attributive.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > cash dispenser
money teller1594
cash machine1890
bank machine1920
teller machine1921
automatic teller1924
automatic teller machine1967
cash dispenser1967
automated teller machine1973
cashpoint1973
money machine1973
ATM1975
hole-in-the-wall1985
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [adjective] > cash dispenser
cashpoint1973
1973 Times 15 Jan. 16/4 A cash dispenser which can issue variable amounts of money has been introduced by Lloyds Bank... Known as Cashpoint, the service is at present available at several branches in Essex.
1977 Navy News June 15 (advt.) All these services, together with our Cashpoint dispenser for instant cash.
1984 Financial Times 2 June i. 4 Charges for cashpoint withdrawals and direct debits will remain at 20p.
cash-price n. the price at which an article is sold for ready money.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > cash-price
cash-price1781
1781 in Cal. Virginia State Papers I. 438 The articles were furnished at cash prices.
cash register n. originally U.S. a till for recording and adding the amounts put into it.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun] > till or cash-register
till-box1692
till1698
lob1819
Peter1827
damper1846
cash register1879
register1879
1879 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) XVI. 847/1 [Patent No.] 221,360. Cash Register and Indicator.
1886 Cassell's Family Mag. 123/1 The cash register which is represented in the woodcut is only twelve inches in height.
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed viii. 102 He was as definite as an adding-machine, as practical as a cash register.
1938 S. Beckett Murphy ix. 178 If his mind had been on the correct cash-register lines.
cash-sale n. a sale for ready money.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > fact of being sold > for cash or credit
realization1753
cash-sale1808
credit sale1822
1808 J. Steele Let. 28 Aug. in Papers (1924) II. 558 A cash sale at present I found to be totally impracticable.
1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1916) 11 350 [He] advises me to sell the whole of Clement Brooks property for cash, or at a Cash Sale.
1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 90 At the same time we are always sure of a cash sale.
1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand viii. 36 The plantation would never have brought that price at a cash sale.
1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter viii. 109 Quit settin' there lookin' like a poor man at a cash sale.
cash-store n. U.S. a store in which credit is not given.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop
show shop1787
lock-up shop1795
cash-store1811
boat shop1813
slaughter shop1841
slaughterhouse1851
ticket-shop1851
charity shop1853
magic shop1853
company store1872
Army and Navy1878
five-and-ten1880
farthing-shop1889
funeral home1895
goodwill1916
shop-within-(a)-shop1916
cash and carry1917
Piggly Wiggly1917
poverty shop1948
discount house1949
anchor1960
box store1976
mom-and-pop1976
op shop1978
duty-free1980
pound shop1983
pop-up2000
1811 Raleigh (N. Carolina) Star 7 Mar. 1/2 Cash Store. S. Bond having taken in a partner, the business in future will be conducted under the firm of Bond & Jones.
1830 J. K. Paulding Chron. Gotham 156 The Honourable Peleg Peshell, cash-store keeper at Peshellville.
1830 J. K. Paulding Chron. Gotham 159 Passing a unanimous resolution, not to buy anything at his cash-store.
1849 N. P. Willis Rural Lett. xviii. 156 You do injustice to the ‘cash stores’ of Oswego.
cash-value n. the value in cash; spec. in Insurance (in full cash surrender value), the value of a policy, etc., cashed before it matures; figurative (Philosophy), the empirical content of a concept, word, or proposition.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > values in specific terms
book value1838
carrying value1864
written-down value1893
cash-value1898
asset value1902
resale value1913
points value1936
point value1939
shareholder value1965
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [noun] > radical empiricism > empirical content of a concept or word
cash-value1898
1898 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 434 The great English way of investigating a conception is to ask yourself right off, ‘..What is its cash-value, in terms of particular experience?’
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xviii. 443 So Berkeley with his ‘matter’. The cash-value of matter is our physical sensations.
1911 A. E. Sprague Treat. Insurance Companies' Accounts iii. 26 The cash value of bonuses surrendered when the policy itself remains in force.
1915 S. S. Huebner Life Insurance xviii. 234 Some companies allow cash values equal to the full reserve at the end of the second or third year.
1929 C. I. Lewis Mind & World-order i. 32 These empirical criteria..are the ‘cash-value’ of the category.
1930 Pitman's Dict. Life Assurance 506/1 Every policy-holder who fails to pay his premiums..when they fall due renders his policy liable to lapse... However, the life office allows him a cash surrender value if he discontinues. This cash value is based on the reserve held against his policy... The minimum cash surrender allowed is one-third of the total payments the policy-holder has made, plus the cash value of any bonuses which have been allotted to the policy.
1935 Mind 44 143 But what is the cash-value of this slogan ‘Essence involves existence’?
1966 Performing Right Oct. 9/1 Twice a year, the total number of points logged is divided into the total distributable revenue to establish the cash value of each point.
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1750 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria (1752) 874 Genoa has..Cash Weights, for Plate and Coin.
Draft additions 1993
cash cow n. colloquial (a sector of) a business which provides a steady cash flow, esp. one considered as an attractive take-over target.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > source of
revenue?a1439
revenuable1610
sponge1625
plum tree1893
trough1906
cash cow1975
1975 Forbes 15 Feb. 55/1 For a while, the fire and casualty companies were great cash cows for their acquirers.
1986 Economist 13 Sept. 75/3 He had called Dairy Farm the company's ‘cash cow’ and its steady turnover had sustained the group's cash flow through Hong Kong's property slump from 1981 to 1983.
Draft additions October 2001
cashback n. (a) a form of consumer incentive offered on selected products whereby, in return for a completed purchase, buyers also receive a cash sum (usually a small proportion of the price); a cash refund of this kind; (b) (chiefly British) a facility offered free by some retailers whereby a customer paying for goods by credit or debit card may (as part of the same transaction) withdraw cash from his or her account, and have the sum added to the bill.
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1973 N.Y. Times 23 June 16/5 Last year manufacturers refunded some $3.5-billion in premium merchandise, cash-back refunds and coupon offers.
1988 Daily Tel. 28 Nov. 27/4 One great advantage for customers under a full Eftpos system is that the retailer can provide ‘cashback’.
1996 Times 20 May 36/5 The retailer had been running a trial in all its stores since last October, soon after it started offering cashback facilities to customers.
1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. (Weekend Mag.) 6 (advt.) Consider our standard rate of 9.9% A.P.R..., and our cash backs (1% on all purchases and up to 2% online).
2000 Independent 4 Apr. (Tuesday Review section) 2/7 Pete Sheridan, protesting at bank closures..seems to be suggesting that rural people have nowhere to obtain their cash... Doesn't anyone offer cashback?
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cash machine n. (in early use) any of various machines used for transactions involving cash; (now) spec. = cash dispenser n. at Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > cash dispenser
money teller1594
cash machine1890
bank machine1920
teller machine1921
automatic teller1924
automatic teller machine1967
cash dispenser1967
automated teller machine1973
cashpoint1973
money machine1973
ATM1975
hole-in-the-wall1985
1890 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 11 July 1/4 Cash machines, cash registers, penny slot machines, and such contrivances are popular, too, with many inventors.
1948 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 15 Dec. 7/2 The manager taught her to register a 10 or 20 cent charge on the cash machine before a customer's order was tallied.
1967 Times 21 Mar. 15/2 Other banks, most of which have several times considered the cash machine idea, can be expected to follow suit at some stage.
2000 S. Heighton Shadow Boxer ii. ii. 150 A fat, wry-faced bum..sitting Buddha-like in the alcove of a cash machine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
cashn.2
/kaʃ/, U.S. /kæʃ/ a. A name applied by Europeans to various coins of low value in the East Indies and China.
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1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xx. 34/1 Certaine copper mynt called Caixa..in the middle whereof is a hole to hang it on a string.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. iv. 72 A fine Coat, or about 1000 Cash, as 'tis called, which is a summ about the value of a Dollar.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. vii. 131 The Money-changers..here [sc. in Achin], as at Tonquin,..sit in the Markets..with leaden Money called Cash, which is a name that is generally given to small money in all these Countreys: but the Cash here is..Lead, or Block Tin.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xli. 109 At Atcheen they have a small Coin of Leaden Money called Cash.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Caxa Old Caxas..are nearly the same with the Caches of China, and the Cassies of Japan.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 503 The caxee..is made of a white metal of about the size of our farthing, with a small square hole driven through the middle.
b. The basis of the monetary system which prevailed in Southern India up to 1818; in this system 80 cash = 1 fanam, 42 fanams = 1 star pagoda (about 7s. 8d.).
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > coins of Indian subcontinent
fanam1555
St. Thomas' coin1559
pardao1582
seraphin1582
chequina1587
pagody1588
pagoda1598
tanga1598
mahmudi1612
rupee1612
mohur1614
tola1614
lakh1615
picec1617
sicca rupee1619
rupee1678
anna1680
cash1711
R1711
star pagoda1741
pie1756
sicca1757
dam1781
dub1781
hun1807
swamy-pagoda1813
chick1842
re1856
paisa1884
naya paisa1956
poisha1974
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > coins of India and Far East
cash1711
mil1893
1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India 8 Doodos and Cash are Copper Coins.
1711 A. W. Boehm tr. in Propagation Gospel in East: Pt. II (ed. 2) viii. 52 Cass, a very small coin; eighty whereof make one Fano.
1766 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies (ed. 2) I. v. v. 282 80 casches make a fanam, or 3d. sterling.
1790 Cornwallis Let. to E. J. Holland I think that every Cash..of that ill-judged saving may cost the Company a crore of rupees.
1871 S. Mateer Travancore 109 The smallest coin in use is the copper Kasu, called by Europeans ‘cash’, equal in value to one nineteenth of a penny.
c. The Chinese le and tsien, coins made of an alloy of copper and lead, with a square hole in the centre whereby they are strung on cords; of these 1000 made a tael or liang.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Chinese coins
cash1750
li1771
fen1852
tiao1883
yuan1921
tael1926
jiao1949
1750 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria (1752) 793 The Caches (a Copper Money of Hainam and Canton).
1771 J. R. Forster tr. P. Osbeck Voy. China I. 262 Kas, which the Chinese call Lai, is the only current coin which is struck in China.
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 280 The China cash at Magindano..have holes as in China.
1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 58 The Chinese cash are well known to be round disks of a kind of brass, with a square hole in the centre.
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† cashn.3
Obsolete. rare.
A dismissal or disbanding of troops.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > levying or mobilizing > disbanding
disordering1523
disbanding1611
cash1617
cashiering1629
reducing1646
reformation1668
reform1698
disbandment1720
demobilization1850
disembodiment1871
demob1918
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. iii. i. 241 His Company of foote, reduced lately in a general cash to 150.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
† cashv.1
Obsolete.
transitive. To disband, dismiss, etc.; = cashier v. 1.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > discharge from service > [verb (transitive)]
cash1564
cast1587
cashier1599
to muster out of service1834
retire1852
pluck1911
society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > levy or mobilize > disband
cash1564
cashier1580
disband1591
reform1604
reduce1637
disbandon1640
disembody1762
demobilize1850
immobilize1871
demob1919
1564 A. Golding tr. Justinus Hist. Trogus Pompeius xii. f. 63 He cashed the old souldiers and supplied their roumes with yong beginners.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 20 If the Companie be dissolued or casht.
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 115 The cashed soldier is euer readie to follow any faction.
1632 R. Le Grys tr. Velleius Paterculus Romane Hist. 202 That both Cæsar and Pompey should cast [corrected in Errata to ‘cash’] of their armies.
1829 London Encycl. V. 214 Cash or Cashier..is now mostly used to express the breaking of an officer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
cashv.2
/kaʃ/, U.S. /kæʃ/ 1.
a. transitive. To give or obtain the cash for (a note, cheque, draft, money order, etc.); to convert into cash.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > convert into cash or capital
negotiate1671
realize1720
capitalize1797
cash1811
encash1861
bank1868
unfreeze1933
strip1972
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > cheques and drafts > process a cheque [verb (transitive)] > cash cheques, etc.
cash1811
melt1868
1811 T. Moore Let. J. Corry 4 Nov. Get two bills upon Power in Dublin cashed for me.
1833 H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. i. 14 Anybody in London whom she could ask to get it cashed for her.
1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. iii. ix. 411 D...gets his bill cashed by taking it to a discount house in France.
1888 N.E.D. at Cash Mod. Will you cash me a cheque for a few pounds?
b. Bridge. To lead (a winning card); to win (a trick) by leading a winning card.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics
declare1895
promote1899
to lead up to1911
to take out1918
squeeze1926
push1927
spread1929
cash1934
overtake1939
underlead1945
finesse1960
1934 E. Culbertson in Amer. Speech 9 11/1 To cash a card is simply to take it while the taking is good.
1936 E. Culbertson Contract Bridge Compl. xlii. 479 Cash all idle top cards in trump or plain suits.
1959 Times 14 Jan. 10/4 Suppose that he cashes four spades and two hearts and can safely assume that East..has nothing left but clubs.
1963 Listener 14 Feb. 314/1 The best line of play is to cash the top winners.
2. to cash in
a. To settle accounts in the game of poker; hence in general use, to clear accounts; to close up a matter. (Sometimes transitive with checks as object.) U.S. colloquial.
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > settle accounts
to cash in1884
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics
see1804
to make good1821
call1840
bluff1846
straddle1864
fill1865
to cash in1884
stack1896
slow-play1967
slow-roll1996
1884 [see sense 2b].
1896 G. Ade Artie v. 46 If you're struck on him I'll cash in right here and drop out of the game.
1899 G. Ade Doc' Horne xxi. 232 I lost back the $2,500 and cashed in.
1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories xii. 224 By all the rules of the game, Peter should have failed long since, should have ‘cashed in and quit’ some five years back.
b. figurative. To die. (Also without in.) Also with checks as object.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1884 H. Dougherty Oratorical Stump Speaker 14 When Bob cashes in his checks and is toasted like a sirloin steak..on the top of Old Nick's pitchfork.
1888 Amer. Humorist 11 Aug. (F.) Till death calls upon you to cash in your earthly checks.
1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan xix. 250 The Orphan not only saved me but also some of them, for I'd a gotten some of them before I cashed.
1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xx. 220 He's been follerin' me around steady since Wolf cashed in.
1948 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 July 88/2 Cashing in or shipping out, it made no difference as long as you didn't watch them die.
1966 D. Varaday Gara-Yaka's Domain vii. 75 Because of the size of the dead animal, at first I thought it to be buffalo. ‘Poor Bill or Phyl, cashed in?’
c. To ‘get in’ with; now usually, to make a profit on, (figurative) to take advantage of (an opportunity, etc.). Originally U.S.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial [verb (intransitive)] > take advantage
to take (the) advantagea1591
to cash in1927
1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories viii. 146 I don't stack very high in the blue chips when it comes to cashin' in with th' gentle sex.
1927 Daily Express 12 Sept. 11 An enterprising American company..‘cashed in’ on Mr. Arlen by acquiring the screen-rights of one of his earliest stories.
1928 Sunday Express 16 Dec. 4/3 She is appearing in too many films, even for a star who would be justified in ‘cashing in’ on her popularity while the popularity is good.
1930 Publishers' Weekly 1 Mar. 1040 Cash in on this tremendous wave of interest and enthusiasm! A large national advertising campaign will start the novel toward a big sale!
1934 P. G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves ii. 26 With a thing like that to give you a send-off, why didn't you cash in immediately?
1935 Economist 8 June 1295/1 Japan's diplomats are now trying to ‘cash in on’ the opportunities which its soldiers have created.
1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. ix. 368 That rather unattractive journalist, Barnabe Rich, cashes in on the rising interest in military matters with a series of tracts.
1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 156/2 A possible autumn election, designed to cash in on what the Conservatives hope will be the flood tide of their popularity.
1966 Listener 2 June 794/2 Are not some of them..cashing in quite shamelessly on the current debased fascination with evil?
d. transitive. To pay in to a bank; to earn, gain.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > bank [verb (transitive)] > pay into bank
to pay in1623
to cash in1904
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > make in profit
winc1175
gain1530
advantage1557
lucre1570
superlucrate1652
cleara1719
realize1720
net1765
to clean up1831
mop1861
gross1884
to cash in1904
1904 ‘M. Twain’ $30,000 Bequest (1906) 10 I'm going to cash-in a whole three hundred on the missionaries.
a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 229 With his gold dust cashed in to the merry air of a hundred thousand..the Man from Nome sighed to set foot again in Chilkoot.
1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 21 I know your kind—hell-bent to spend what you cash in.
1933 D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xvi. 278 If all these vouchers were cashed in at once, it would send up the cost per packet.
3.
a. To pay over or up. Now chiefly U.S.
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay up or out
to shell out1821
dub1823
stump1828
to stump up1836
tip1847
cash1854
to ante up1861
to fund up1888
pony1894
brass1898
cough1920
to pay up1941
to dig down1942
1818 J. Keats Let. 10 Jan. (1958) I. 203 I will..ask Kingston and Co to cash up.
1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 193 When it came to ‘cashing-up’, affairs assumed a soberer complexion.
1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 556 The call to ‘cash up’ is unheeded By holders of Mexican Scrip.
1831 Examiner 296/2 A certain Alderman..did not cash up to his supporters on the former election.
1842 R. H. Barham Merchant of Venice in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 54 He could not cash up, spite of all he could do.
1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine xxi. 227 Tempest is in a desput hurry to know whether I'm goin to cash over and send her to market in New Orleans.
1890 G. W. Perrie Buckskin Mose (new ed.) xvii. 246 He might run to Tom Long's, and inform him of our use of the contents of his cellar, without cashing up.
1924 P. G. Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith i. 26 I'm game to spill it and leave it to your honesty to cash up if the thing looks good to you.
b. In passive: to be supplied with money. Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > in possession of money [phrase]
in pocket1751
in cash1753
cash1940
1940 F. D. Davison Woman at Mill 151 I..went to Sydney well cashed up.
1961 B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate (1963) 191 I couldn't even go on the bash when we were cashed-up.
c. transitive and intransitive. With up. To count and reconcile (the takings) at a cash register, etc., after a period of trading.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (intransitive)] > balance
to strike a balance1638
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > add up and ascertain differences > balance or reconcile
strike1539
sald1588
rescounter1606
even1619
balance1622
level1660
square1815
reconcile1822
agree1882
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1960 National Cash Register Factory Post Nov. 6 The register-printed sales bill..can be used as a Paid Out voucher, retained in the cash drawer to be taken into account when cashing up.
1962 E. Godfrey Retail Selling & Organization ix. 84 Other selling system forms which the assistant must know..are..cashing-up forms for totalling the money in a cash register drawer.
1969 D. Clark Death after Evensong ii. 37 Don't parsons cash up the takings after the service with the church wardens?
1985 J. Winterson Oranges are not only Fruit 14 We went past the shop…Mrs Arkwright was there cashing up.
Derivatives
cash-in n. an instance of ‘cashing in’.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > [noun] > taking advantage
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1940 T. H. Harrisson & C. H. Madge War begins at Home iv. 95 Apart from this commercial cash-in, all the comments..were satirical.
1950 ‘G. Orwell’ in World Rev. June 35 Margesson's entry into the Cabinet is..a deliberate cash-in on Wavell's victory.
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