cash
1 (kăsh)
[Obsolete French casse, money box (from Norman French; see case2), or from Italian cassa (from Latin capsa, case).]
noun
- Money in the form of bills or coins; currency.
- Payment for goods or services in currency or by check.
transitive verb: cashed, cash·ing, cash·es.
- To exchange for or convert into ready money: cash a check; cash in one's gambling chips.
phrasal verbs
- cash in
- To withdraw from a venture by or as if by settling one's account.
- Informal To obtain a profit or other advantage by timely exploitation: Profiteers cashed in during the gasoline shortage.
- Slang To die.
- cash out
- To dispose of a long-held asset for profit: Hard-pressed farmers are tempted to cash out by selling their valuable land.
idioms
- cash on the barrelhead
- Immediate payment: You must pay cash on the barrelhead; we don't offer credit.
derivatives
- cash́less
- adjective
cash
2 (kăsh)
[Portuguese caixa, from Tamil kācu, a small coin.]
noun: pl., cash.
- Any of various Asian coins of small denomination, especially a copper and lead coin with a square hole in its center.
