Cash
Cash (kash) , noun
[French 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.
£20,000 are known to be in her cash.
2.
(a) (Commerce) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money
(b)
(Commerce) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.
Collocations (4)
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.
Cash , transitive verb
To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
Cash , transitive verb
[See Cashier.]
To disband. [Obsolete] — Garges
Cash , noun, singular and plural
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.