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cashectomy en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree English cash Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek) Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-) Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō) Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō) Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der. English -ectomy English cashectomy From cash + -ectomy.

Meanings

1. (humorous, slang) The removal of all of a person's money, usually by voluntary means.
   • Their first obligation is to sell you — to perform a cashectomy. 1984, Jeff Slutsky, Woody Woodruff, Streetfighting, →ISBN, page 154:
   • If print wants to perform a cashectomy on users, it should probably look to what happened with music, an industry in which people once paid handsomely for records, then tapes, then CDs, that was overtaken by the expectation that the same product should be free. 2009 January 12, David Carr, “Let’s Invent an iTunes for News”, in New York Times:
   • We've every facility here for dealing with people who are rich. We can deal with a blocked purse, we can drain private accounts and in the worst cases we can perform a total cashectomy, which is total removal of all moneys from the patient. 1970 December 22, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Episode Twenty-six:

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