cash Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun money in the form of bills or coins
hard currency; hard cash.
- there is a desperate shortage of hard cash
noun prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
immediate payment.
noun United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)
John Cash; Johnny Cash.
verb exchange for cash
cash in.
- I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail

F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See Case a box.

A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. Obs.
This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. Sir W. Temple.

£20,000 are known to be in her cash. Sir R. Winwood.
(Com.) (a) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money. (b) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. cash on the nail. A cash payment made immediately upon receiving the thing purchased. Syn. -- Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.

imperfect & past participle Cashed ; present participle & verbal noun Casing

To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.

See Cashier.

A Chinese coin. ✍ The cash (Chinese tsien) is the only current coin made by the chinese government. It is a thin circular disk of a very base alloy of copper, with a square hole in the center. 1,000 to 1,400 cash are equivalent to a dollar.