Cash, Johnny Cash, John Cash
(noun) United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)
cash, immediate payment
(noun) prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
cash, hard cash, hard currency
(noun) money in the form of bills or coins; “there is a desperate shortage of hard cash”
cash, cash in
(verb) exchange for cash; “I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)
(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.
(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.
cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)
(transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
(poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
cash (comparative more cash, superlative most cash)
(slang) Great; excellent; cool.
cash (plural cashes or cash)
Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.
cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)
To disband. To do away with, kill
• ACHs, CAHs, Chas, HCAs, achs, cahs
Cash (plural Cashes)
A surname.
A male given name from surnames.
• ACHs, CAHs, Chas, HCAs, achs, cahs
Source: Wiktionary
Cash, n. Etym: [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See Case a box.]
Definition: A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. [Obs.] This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. Sir W. Temple. ÂŁ20,000 are known to be in her cash. Sir R. Winwood.
2. (Com.) (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. [Colloq.] -- 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.
Syn.
– Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.
Cash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Casing.]
Definition: To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
Cash, v. t. Etym: [See Cashier.]
Definition: To disband. [Obs.] Garges.
Cash, n.sing & pl.
Definition: A Chinese coin.
Note: The cash (Chinese tsien) is 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 are equivalent to a dollar.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 March 2025
(adjective) (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply; “staccato applause”; “a staccato command”; “staccato notes”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
