Cash

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăsh, IPA: /kæʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ
• Homophones: cache

From Middle French caisse ("money box"), from Old Provencal caissa, from Old Italian cassa, from Latin capsa ("box, case"), from capio ("I take, I seize, I receive"), from Proto-Indo-European *kehâ‚‚p- ("to grasp").

Full definition of cash

Noun

1. Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
2. (informal) Money.
• 2013-07-06, The rise of smart beta, Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries ....
3. (Canada) Cash register.
4. (archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
• unknown date Sir W. TempleThis bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money.
• unknown date Sir R. Winwood£20,000 are known to be in her cash.

Derived terms

Verb

1. (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
2. (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.

Derived terms

From Tamil காசு.

Noun

1. Any of several low-denomination coins of India or China, especially the Chinese copper coin.

See cashier.

Verb

1. To disband.

Anagrams

• achs, cahs, Chas