What does cash mean?

Definitions for cash
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word cash.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. cash, hard cash, hard currencynoun

    money in the form of bills or coins

    "there is a desperate shortage of hard cash"

  2. cash, immediate paymentnoun

    prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check

  3. Cash, Johnny Cash, John Cashverb

    United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)

  4. cash, cash inverb

    exchange for cash

    "I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. CASHnoun

    Money; properly ready money; money in the chest, or at hand.

    Etymology: caisse, Fr. a chest.

    A thief, bent to unhoard the cash
    Of some rich burgher. Paradise Lost, b. ii. l. 188.

    He is at an end of all his cash; he has both his law and his daily bread now upon trust. John Arbuthnot, John Bull.

    He sent the thief, that stole the cash, away,
    And punish’d him that put it in his way. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. cash

    Cash refers to money in the physical form of currency, such as banknotes and coins. It is a tangible and immediate method of payment for goods and services, typically used for in-person transactions. It can also refer to readily available funds in a business or owned by a person, regardless of the form (like in a bank account).

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cashnoun

    a place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box

  2. Cashnoun

    ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money

  3. Cashnoun

    immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash

  4. Cashverb

    to pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order

  5. Cashverb

    to disband

  6. Cash

    a Chinese coin

  7. Etymology: [See Cashier.]

Wikidata

  1. Cash

    In English vernacular cash refers to money in the physical form of currency, such as banknotes and coins. In bookkeeping and finance, cash refers to current assets comprising currency or currency equivalents that can be accessed immediately or near-immediately. Cash is seen either as a reserve for payments, in case of a structural or incidental negative cash flow or as a way to avoid a downturn on financial markets.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cash

    kash, n. coin or money: ready money.—v.t. to turn into or exchange for money: to pay money for.—ns. Cash′-account′, an account to which nothing is carried but cash: a form of account with a bank, by which a person is entitled to draw out sums as required by way of loan to a stipulated amount—also called Cash′-cred′it; Cash′-book, a book in which an account is kept of the receipts and disbursements of money; Cashier′, a cash-keeper: one who has charge of the receiving and paying of money; Cash′-pay′ment, payment in ready money; Cash′-rail′way, a mechanical device adopted in large shops and warehouses for the interchange of cash between the counters and the cash-desk.—Hard cash, ready money; Out of cash, or In cash, without or with money: out of, or in, pocket. [A doublet of Case, a box—O. Fr. casse, a box.]

Editors Contribution

  1. cash

    Money in the form of coins and banknotes.

    Cash is handy to have in your purse for the shopping trolley or just to purchase something, many people like the feel of money.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CASH

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cash is ranked #1200 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Cash surname appeared 29,476 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 10 would have the surname Cash.

    78.5% or 23,156 total occurrences were White.
    15.5% or 4,581 total occurrences were Black.
    2.7% or 796 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.9% or 575 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 197 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.5% or 171 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cash' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1271

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cash' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1446

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cash' in Nouns Frequency: #581

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cash in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cash in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of cash in a Sentence

  1. Casey Murray:

    We are pleased that Southwest has finally begun to hear the message that [ the union ] has been saying for months now — the current holiday schedule is not sustainable. The data shows it has the potential to be even worse than this summer has been, reduced schedules resulting in neutral/negative cash flows are not what we want. We want effective measures to reduce the waste and stress on our crews.

  2. Samuel Chien:

    Main indexes will rise. For the Shanghai Composite, the area below 4,500 is relatively safe now, i have ample cash at hand, and surely will buy stocks this week.

  3. Bruce Aylward:

    We run out of cash in mid-February, that is four or five months before that virus is going to stop in a best-case scenario, so it is a bit of a race against time right now.

  4. Ashley Smith:

    MarketInvoice was the first company that came up with a viable option and said 'you can sell your invoices and release that cash very, very quickly'.

  5. Janice Fukakusa:

    It's just a prudent thing to do if you have a borrower that ... you think should only draw down if they need the cash flow to do some capex or to create more cash flow.

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