cash
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Noun (3)
- money in the form of bills or coins“there is a desperate shortage of hard cash”Synonyms: hard cashhard currencyType of currencyKinds change, ready cash, small change, pocket money
- United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)Synonyms: Johnny CashJohn CashInstance of singer, vocalist
- prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by checkSynonyms: immediate paymentOpposite creditType of payment
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Translations
Noun money in the form of notes/bills and coins
- Spanish
- efectivo
- French
- espèces
- German
- Bargeld
- Italian
- contanti
- Portuguese
- dinheiro em espécie
- Turkish
- nakit
- Russian
- нали́чные nalíčnyje
- Arabic
- نَقْد naqd
- Chinese
- 现金 xiànjīn
- Japanese
- 現金 genkin
35 more languages
- Dutch
- contant geld
- Polish
- gotówka
- Swedish
- kontanter
- Greek
- μετρητά metritá
- Korean
- 현금 hyeon'geum
- Indonesian
- tunai
- Vietnamese
- tiền mặt
- Hungarian
- készpénz
- Portuguese (PT)
- numerário
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 現金 xiànjīn
- Albanian
- para në dorë
- Breton
- arc'hant
- Catalan
- efectiu
- Corsican
- soldi
- Czech
- hotovost
- Danish
- kontanter
- Esperanto
- kontanta mono
- Estonian
- sularaha
- Finnish
- käteinen
- Georgian
- ნაღდი ფული naɣdi puli
- Hebrew
- מזומן m'zumán
- Icelandic
- reiðufé
- Kurdish
- neqd
- Latvian
- skaidrā nauda
- Lithuanian
- grynieji
- Malagasy
- vola
- Norwegian
- kontanter
- Romanian
- numerar
- Serbo-Croatian
- gotovina
- Slovak
- hotovosť
- Slovenian
- gotovina
- Swahili
- taslimu
- Walloon
- likide
- Welsh
- arian parod
- Yiddish
- מזומנים mezumonim
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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. obsolete
This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money.— Sir William Temple
£20,000 are known to be in her cash.— Ralph Winwood
2. Commerce (a) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money. (b) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.
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. colloquial — 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.
Synonyms: Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.
To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
Origin: See Cashier.
To disband. obsolete Garges.
A Chinese coin.
☞ 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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC