cash

From Latin cāseus. Compare Romanian caș.


cash

Borrowed from English cash. Doublet of kas.


cash

Heb je cash geld?

(informal, of money) in coins and bills/notes


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After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.

When a man bargains for the price of maintaining such or such principles, or of endeavouring to make out such or such a case, without believing in the soundness of the principles or the truth of the case; such a man, whether he touch the cash (or paper-money) before or after the performance of his work, and whether he work with his tongue or his pen, may, I think be fairly charged with seeking after "base lucre;" […]

1810 July 13, William Cobbett, “To the Reader”, in Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume XVIII, number 1, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Richard Bagshaw, Brydges Street, Covent-Garden, and John Budd, Pall-Mall, published 14 July 1810, →OCLC, columns 13–14:

(uncountable) Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.

Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […].

2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:

(uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.

Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.

2017, Erin Lowry, Broke Millennial, page 146:

Let me just bring these to the cash for you.

Visit Apple’s jam-packed stores and you won’t see lines at the cash — because every sales clerk is also your cashier, using cellphone card-readers to zip you through.

2017 December 30, Josh Freed, “Just you wait — technology might be the end of the line”, in Montreal Gazette, page A4, column 2:

(countable, Canada) Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.

In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.

2012, Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 2:

(countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.

This bank[…] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money,

1787 [1764], Adam Anderson, quoting William Temple, An Historical And Chronological Deduction Of The Origin Of Commerce, From the Earliest Accounts, volume 1, page 236:

She was said to have amassed a great sum of money for ill use ; 20,000l. are known to be in her cash ;

1852, Theresa Lewis, quoting a letter from John More to Ralph Winwood, Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, volume 2, page 321:

(countable, archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

en-noun

cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)

→ Georgian: ქეში (keši)

→ Japanese: キャッシュ (kyasshu)

→ Korean: 캐시 (kaesi)

→ Punjabi: ਕੈਸ਼ (kaiś)

→ Russian: кэш (kɛš)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: ке̏ш

Latin script: kȅš

→ Swedish: cash

→ Wu: 開許／开许 (¹khe-shiu)

para

money in the form of notes/bills and coins

From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).


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My single "Lick and Move" had made it to number four on the Top Ten charts, and I had gotten a nice check from Ruthless Rap. I cashed that shit and took Muddah shopping in Midtown and told her to get any damn thing she wanted.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 247:

(transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.

(poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.

en-verb

cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)

cashes (present singular third-person)
cashing (participle present)
cashed (participle past)
cashed (past)


cash

en-adj

cash (comparative more cash, superlative most cash)

more cash (comparative)
most cash (superlative)


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(historical) The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.

Shentzŭ is the Chinese name for what we would call a mule litter. As this conveyance can go over almost any kind of road, I decided on it, and engaged two mules for the litter, and a donkey for the baggage: the three animals with the shentzŭ and a man cost 1300 cash per day when we travelled, and 700 cash per day when we rested from any cause.

1896, Alexander Armstrong, In a Mule Litter to the Tomb of Confucius, pages 2-3:

(historical) Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin.

方孔錢

low-denomination coins of India or China

Variant of earlier cass under influence from cash above, from Tamil காசு (kācu), ultimately from Sanskrit karsha ("weight of 1/400 tulā, तुला"). Extended to other similar forms of low-denomination coins in Southeast and East Asia following the example of cognate Portuguese cas, casse, caxa, caixa.


cash

He cashed the old souldiers, and supplied their roumes with yong beginners.

1564, Arthur Golding, Abridgment of the histories of Trogus Pompeius:


cash

(colloquial) bluntly, directly, straight up

Borrowed from English cash. Doublet of caisse.


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cash (accusative indefinite nominative)
cashul (accusative definite nominative)
cash (indefinite)
cashului (definite)
cashule (vocative)


cash

Borrowed from English cash. Attested since 1887.


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Jag betalar cash