Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cash"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cash \Cash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Casing}.]
To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as,
cash a note or an order.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cash \Cash\, n. [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See {Case}
a box.]
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. --Sir W.
Temple.

[pounds]20,000 are known to be in her cash. --Sir R.
Winwood.

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cash \Cash\, v. t. [See {Cashier}.]
To disband. [Obs.] --Garges.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cash \Cash\, n.sing & pl.
A Chinese coin.

Note: The cash (Chinese tsien) is 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 are equivalent to a
dollar.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

cash
n 1: money in the form of bills or coins [syn: {hard cash}, {hard
currency}]
2: prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
[syn: {immediate payment}] [ant: {credit}]
v : exchange for cash [syn: {cash in}]


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