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cash1 /kaʃ /noun [mass noun]1Money in coins or notes, as distinct from cheques, money orders, or credit: the staff were paid in cash a discount for cash...- Entities having cash credit accounts or bill accounts can now make repayments of their credit facilities in cash instead of a cheque or draft.
- You can take Traveller cheques, cash, and a credit card.
- In the finance office, the main coffer lock was detonated, damaging all papers, including vouchers, promissory notes, cash and cheque box.
Synonyms money, ready money/cash, currency, legal tender, hard cash; notes, bank notes; coins, coinage, coin, coin of the realm, change, silver, copper; North American bills informal dough, bread, loot, the ready, readies, shekels, moolah, wad, boodle, dibs, gelt, ducats, rhino, gravy British informal dosh, brass, lolly, spondulicks, wonga, ackers North American informal greenbacks, dinero, simoleons, bucks, jack, mazuma Australian/New Zealand informal Oscar informal, dated splosh, green, tin British dated l.s.d. North American informal, dated kale, rocks, shinplasters formal specie 1.1Money in any form: she was always short of cash...- Health bosses said the shortage has been heightened by practices going private, claiming demand and lack of cash was affecting their ability to treat patients.
- A county council spokesman said the fund was not short of cash for paying pensioners.
- The Group remains in a negative cashflow position as it used its available cash to finance capital expenditure and retire debt.
Synonyms finance, resources, funds, money, means, assets, wherewithal, capital, investment capital verb [with object]1Give or obtain notes or coins for (a cheque or money order): the bank cashed her cheque...- After a phone call, they informed me that if I went into Kitchener, the post office there would have the money to cash the money order.
- If we are going to be cashing cheques for the bank, we could not face the cut in payment.
- But as soon as he had finished laughing all the way to the bank and cashed the cheque, he was arrested on 24 counts of arson.
Synonyms exchange, change, convert into cash/money, turn into cash/money, encash, realize, liquidate; honour, pay, accept, take 2 Bridge Lead (a high card) so as to take the opportunity to win a trick: South cashed the ace, king, and queen of clubs...- Usually, therefore, defense starts with one defender cashing a long suit, hoping that his partner will become void in the suit and be able to discard in another suit, or simply to pave the way for an attack in that same suit.
- Ann now cashes five clubs on which Bill discards down to the two aces and the 9
Phrasescash down cash in one's chips cash in hand Phrasal verbscash in cash something in (or cash out) cash up (or cash out) Derivativescashable /ˈkaʃəb(ə)l / adjective ...- The efficiency challenge, which was set by the Government, means it is obligatory for the council to make a 2.5 per cent saving every year for three years, of which at least half must be cashable finance.
- Go ahead with the tournament and take a chance on the checks being cashable when the banks open.
- He proposed that Grant send with each order a cheque for 30% of the order and a letter of credit for 50% of the order, cashable at what he referred to as the billing date.
OriginLate 16th century (denoting a box for money): from Old French casse or Italian cassa 'box', from Latin capsa (see case2). case from Middle English: Case ‘an instance’ is something that happens or befalls, coming via French from Latin casus ‘a fall’, also the source of casual (Late Middle English). The case meaning ‘container’ is from Old French casse, the modern forms of which is caisse ‘trunk, chest’, based on Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’ (see capable). Latin capsa is also the base of late Middle English capsule, a general term at first for ‘a small container’, and cash (late 16th century) originally meaning ‘money-box’. The same base gave rise to late Middle English casement, which was first recorded as an architectural term for a hollow moulding.
Rhymesabash, ash, Ashe, bash, brash, cache, calash, clash, crash, dash, encash, flash, gnash, hash, lash, mash, Nash, panache, pash, plash, rash, sash, slash, smash, soutache, splash, stash, thrash, trash cash2 /kaʃ /noun (plural same) historicalA coin of low value from China, southern India, or SE Asia. OriginLate 16th century: from Portuguese caixa, from Tamil kāsu, influenced by cash1. |