单词 | cashless |
释义 | cashlessadj. Without cash, penniless, impecunious. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > lacking money to the boneOE silverlessc1325 pennilessc1330 moneylessc1400 impecunious1596 crossless1600 penceless1605 unmoneyed1606 coinless1614 emptya1643 out of pocket1679 money-bound1710 broke1716 embarrassed1744 stiver cramped1785 plackless1786 taper1789 poundlessa1794 shillingless1797 unpennied1804 fundless1809 impecuniary1814 hard up1821 soldier-thighed1825 cashless1833 stiverless1839 fly-blown1853 strapped1857 stick1859 tight1859 stone-broke1886 stony1886 oofless1888 stony-broke1890 motherless1906 penny-pinched1918 skinned1924 skint1925 on the beach1935 potless1936 boracic1959 uptight1967 brassic1982 1833 Niles' Reg. 20 July 347 They with rich land, and staple productions..are becoming poor and cashless. 1856 D. Masson Ess. Biogr. & Crit. i. ii. 193 Drawn up by Chatterton in a cashless moment. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. iv. 432 Friedrich..being totally cashless. Draft additions July 2002 Not using cash as a medium, esp. as a means of payment; designating, relating to, or characterized by financial transactions which do not involve the use of cash, esp. the exchange of funds by cheque, debit card, or any of various electronic methods. cashless society n. a (hypothesized) society in which financial transactions are wholly or principally conducted by electronic means, making cash unnecessary. ΚΠ 1937 Polit. Sci. Q. 52 88 Coincident with the growing power of the Reichsbank, important changes took place in the field of credit which included..the development of the transfer or Giro system, referred to by German authors as the ‘cashless means of payment’. 1953 Soviet Stud. 5 18 The organization of ‘cashless’ accounting. 1969 R. Salerno & J. S. Tompkins Crime Confederation 366 The computer..makes possible the checkless, cashless society in which, a few years from now, most transfers of money..can be accomplished by electronic impulse. 1987 T. Forester High-tech Society (1989) viii. 237 Unfortunately, the tantalizing dream of smooth, cashless shopping has not been matched by real achievements, and there is no country in the world that can claim a major, successful EFT/POS system in operation. 1992 Australian 12 June (Brisbane ed.) 27/4 A cashless bank based on the oldest form of business—bartering—is helping small businesses to increase sales and move excess stock. 2000 Times 21 Nov. 22/5 While the move towards a cashless society is generally seen as progress—..implicit in the acceptance of plastic cards is the acceptance of the culture of debt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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