From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
Meanings
(uncountable, usually) Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.
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;" […] 1810 July 13, William Cobbett, “To the Reader”, in Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume XVIII, number 1, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Richard Bagshaw, Brydges Street, Covent-Garden, and John Budd, Pall-Mall, published 14 July 1810, →OCLC, columns 13–14:
How are you off for cash? After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
(uncountable, usually) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […]. 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
(informal, uncountable, usually) Money.
Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget. 2017, Erin Lowry, Broke Millennial, page 146:
(Canada, countable, usually) Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
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. 2017 December 30, Josh Freed, “Just you wait — technology might be the end of the line”, in Montreal Gazette, page A4, column 2:
(countable, usually) An instance of winning a cash prize.
In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI. 2012, Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 2:
(archaic, countable, usually) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
This bank[…] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money, 1787 [1764], Adam Anderson, quoting William Temple, An Historical And Chronological Deduction Of The Origin Of Commerce, From the Earliest Accounts, volume 1, page 236:
She was said to have amassed a great sum of money for ill use ; 20,000l. are known to be in her cash ; 1852, Theresa Lewis, quoting a letter from John More to Ralph Winwood, Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, volume 2, page 321:
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From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
Meanings
(transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
My single "Lick and Move" had made it to number four on the Top Ten charts, and I had gotten a nice check from Ruthless Rap. I cashed that shit and took Muddah shopping in Midtown and told her to get any damn thing she wanted. 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 247:
(slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
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cashable (Terms derived from the verb to cash) · cash out (Terms derived from the verb to cash) · recash (Terms derived from the verb to cash) · cash up (Terms derived from the verb to cash) · cash in (Terms derived from the verb to cash) · cash in on (Terms derived from the verb to cash) · cashability (Terms derived from the verb to cash) · write cheques one can't cash (Terms derived from the verb to cash) · casher (Terms derived from the verb to cash)
ru обнали́чивать (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · es canjear (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · el εξαργυρώνω (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · ro încasa (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · it incassare (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · az nağdlaşdırmaq (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · pl zrealizować (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · bg осребрявам (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · sl vnovčiti (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · de einlösen (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · gsw iilöse (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · fi lunastaa (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · es abonar (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · ru обнали́чить (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · es cobrar (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · fr encaisser (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money) · nl innen (to exchange (a check/cheque) for money)
Variant of earlier cass under influence from cash above, from Tamil காசு (kācu), ultimately from Sanskrit karsha ("weight of 1/400 tulā, तुला"). Extended to other similar forms of low-denomination coins in Southeast and East Asia following the example of cognate Portuguese cas, casse, caxa, caixa.
Meanings
(historical) The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.
(historical) Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin.
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. 1896, Alexander Armstrong, In a Mule Litter to the Tomb of Confucius, pages 2-3:
da kas (low-denomination coins of India or China) · cmn 銅錢 /铜钱 (low-denomination coins of India or China) · ta காசு (low-denomination coins of India or China) · cmn 銅幣 /铜币 (low-denomination coins of India or China) · vi đồng tiền (low-denomination coins of India or China) · cmn 方孔錢 /方孔钱 (low-denomination coins of India or China) · vi đồng (low-denomination coins of India or China) · fi cash (low-denomination coins of India or China)