cash : Idioms & Phrases

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Cash account

  • noun an account with a securities brokerage whose transactions are settled on a cash basis
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  • (Bookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand.
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cash advance

  • noun an amount paid before it is earned
    advance.
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cash bar

  • noun a counter at a large party where you can purchase drinks by the glass
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cash basis

  • noun a method of accounting in which each item is entered as payments are received or made
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Cash boy

  • in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. Colloq.
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cash card

  • noun a credit card that entitles the holder to receive cash
    cashcard.
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cash cow

  • noun a project that generates a continuous flow of money
    money-spinner; moneymaker.
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Cash credit

  • an account with a bank by which a person or house, having given security for repayment, draws at pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed upon; called also bank credit and cash account.
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cash crop

  • noun a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)
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cash dispenser

  • noun an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used
    ATM; automatic teller; automated teller machine; automated teller; automatic teller machine; cash dispenser.
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cash equivalent

  • noun a highly liquid debt instrument with maturities of less than three months
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cash flow

  • noun the excess of cash revenues over cash outlays in a give period of time (not including non-cash expenses)
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cash in

  • verb exchange for cash
    cash.
    • I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail
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cash in hand

  • noun assets in the form of money
    funds; finances; pecuniary resource; monetary resource.
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cash in on

  • verb take advantage of or capitalize on
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cash in one's chips

  • verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    decease; give-up the ghost; pop off; perish; die; buy the farm; snuff it; choke; drop dead; pass away; expire; exit; croak; pass; go; kick the bucket; conk.
    • She died from cancer
    • The children perished in the fire
    • The patient went peacefully
    • The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
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cash machine

  • noun an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used
    ATM; automatic teller; automated teller machine; automated teller; automatic teller machine; cash dispenser.
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cash on delivery

  • adverb collecting the charges upon delivery
    C.O.D.; COD.
    • mail a package C.O.D.
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cash out

  • verb choose a simpler life style after questioning personal and career satisfaction goals
    • After 3 decades in politics, she cashed out and moved to Polynesia
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cash price

  • noun the current delivery price of a commodity traded in the spot market
    spot price.
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cash register

  • noun a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
    register.
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Cash sales

  • sales made for ready, money, in distinction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction.
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cash surrender value

  • noun the amount that the insurance company will pay on a given life insurance policy if the policy is cancelled prior to the death of the insured
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cash-and-carry

  • adjective sold for cash and the customer carries it away (no delivery service)
    • cash-and-carry business
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cold cash

  • noun money in the form of cash that is readily available
    cold cash; ready money.
    • his wife was always a good source of ready cash
    • he paid cold cash for the TV set
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hard cash

  • noun money in the form of bills or coins
    hard currency; cash.
    • there is a desperate shortage of hard cash
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john cash

  • noun United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)
    John Cash; Cash.
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johnny cash

  • noun United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)
    John Cash; Cash.
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non-cash expense

  • noun an expense (such as depreciation) that is not paid for in cash
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pay cash

  • verb pay (for something) with cash
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Petty cash

  • noun a small fund of cash that a firm keeps for the payment of incidental expenses
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  • money expended or received in small items or amounts.
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ready cash

  • noun money in the form of cash that is readily available
    cold cash; ready money.
    • his wife was always a good source of ready cash
    • he paid cold cash for the TV set
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