Meaning of cash | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.
   historical
2. A surname originating as an occupation.
   countable, uncountable
3. Acronym of calcium aluminium silicate hydrate.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
4. real, true
5. Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.
   uncountable, usually
6. Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin.
   historical
7. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   countable, uncountable
8. Acronym of Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health.
   US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
9. effective
10. Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
    uncountable, usually
11. A number of places in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
12. A minor city in Craighead County, Arkansas; a corruption of Cache River.
    countable, uncountable
13. cash (money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions)
14. Money.
    informal, uncountable, usually
15. An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia, named after a sign "Cash or nothing".
    countable, uncountable
16. (in the plural) forces
17. Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
    Canada, countable, usually
18. An unincorporated community in Hart County, Kentucky, named after a postmaster.
    countable, uncountable
19. An instance of winning a cash prize.
    countable, usually
20. A locale in Watertown Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, named after Edward Cash.
    countable, uncountable
21. A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
    archaic, countable, usually
22. A census-designated place in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, named after Col. E. B. Cash.
    countable, uncountable
23. An unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, named Cash after the name 'Money' was rejected by the Post Office.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.”

“When a man bargains for the price of maintaining such or such principles, or of endeavouring to make out such or such a case, without believing in the soundness of the principles or the truth of the case; such a man, whether he touch the cash (or paper-money) before or after the performance of his work, and whether he work with his tongue or his pen, may, I think be fairly charged with seeking after "base lucre;" […]”

“Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […].”

“Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.”

“Let me just bring these to the cash for you.”

“Visit Apple’s jam-packed stores and you won’t see lines at the cash — because every sales clerk is also your cashier, using cellphone card-readers to zip you through.”

“In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.”

“This bank[…] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money,”

“She was said to have amassed a great sum of money for ill use ; 20,000l. are known to be in her cash ;”

“Shentzŭ is the Chinese name for what we would call a mule litter. As this conveyance can go over almost any kind of road, I decided on it, and engaged two mules for the litter, and a donkey for the baggage: the three animals with the shentzŭ and a man cost 1300 cash per day when we travelled, and 700 cash per day when we rested from any cause.”

“This ill-chosen subplot also means that Kingsolver must make Cash Stillwater (named for his mother's favorite singer, Johnny Cash) more than just a returning widower.”

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