cash
IPA: kˈæʃ
noun
- (uncountable) Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
- (uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
- (uncountable, informal) Money.
- (countable, Canada) Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
- (countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.
- (countable, archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
- Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A minor city in Craighead County, Arkansas; a corruption of Cache River.
- An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia, named after a sign "Cash or nothing".
- An unincorporated community in Hart County, Kentucky, named after a postmaster.
- A locale in Watertown Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, named after Edward Cash.
- A census-designated place in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, named after Col. E. B. Cash.
- An unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, named Cash after the name 'Money' was rejected by the Post Office.
- Acronym of calcium aluminium silicate hydrate.
verb
- (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
- (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
- To disband. To do away with, kill
adjective
- (slang) Great; excellent; cool.
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Examples of "cash" in Sentences
- The code to tell our system that you are paying in cash is [1].
- The Company uses the term "cash operating income" as an important measure of profitability and performance.
- Off the books and in cash is how those with no SSN get paid, maybe on the books and by check if they have an SSN.
- For the full year, the Company generated positive operating cash flow of $629 million and ended the year with a total cash* position of $8.0 billion.
- While Plainfield seems to have swept the disappearance of over $3,000 in cash from the Tax Collector's office under the rug, others jurisdictions are less forgiving.
- The work proves the feasibility of "pharmaceuticals from livestock," says Karl Ebert of Tufts University veterinary school -- and gives new meaning to the term cash cow.
- AIG is expecting to use the nearly $28 billion in cash from the Alico and AIA transactions to repay the credit facility extended to AIG by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as well as payments on other interests owned by the federal government.
- _cash_; to which is added a proviso authorizing the Secretary to withdraw the public deposits from any bank which shall refuse to receive as cash from the United States any notes receivable under the law which such bank receives in the ordinary course of business on general deposit.
- One such occasion appears to have been on June 19, 1898, when the recently appointed Durrani postmaster, Mirza Khalifa Ji Khan, went to the Peshawar Treasury to collect Rs. 5,58,954 in cash from the subsidy account. 42 In this instance, a quarrel broke out between the Durrani postmaster and his entourage, and British officials and their staffs, regarding the exact form of the coinage's packing in bags and boxes.
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