Cash n. 1.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." "£20,000 are known to be in her cash."
2.(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 account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand.
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.)
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.
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.
Synonyms: Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.
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