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CASHES
Noun
cashes
plural of cash
Verb
cashes
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cash
Anagrams
• Chasse, Sachse, chases, chasse, chassé
Source: Wiktionary
CASH
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. £20,000 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
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(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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