noun 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.
Cash n. A Chinese coin. Note: In 1913 the cash (Chinese tsien) was 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 were equivalent to a dollar.
verb Cash v. t. (past & past part. cashed; pres. part. casing) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
Cash v. t. To disband. (Obs.)
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