Noun: cash
| Singular | cash |
| Plural | cashes; cash |
Sample Sentences
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After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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Let me just bring these to the cash for you.
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like cash
gallowglass,
secesh,
icefish,
ghostfish,
neon fish,
New English,
combfish,
zebrafish,
walking catfish,
rose fish,
granofels,
elephant trunkfish,
medusafish,
Mississippi catfish,
boxfish,
weeverfish,
greenfish,
stone fish,
stone-fish,
bannerfish, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Latin Nouns '
capsa', Spanish Nouns '
caja'.
Verbs referencing "cash"
Dutch Nouns
cash, Swedish Nouns
cash, Polish Nouns
kasa, Ukrainian Nouns
кеш.