Cash

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cash \Cash\, n. sing. & pl.
     A Chinese coin.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
           [1913 Webster +PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cash \Cash\ (k[a^]sh), 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.]
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           This bank is properly a general cash, where every man
           lodges his money.                        --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
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           [pounds]20,000 are known to be in her cash. --Sir R.
                                                    Winwood.
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     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.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     {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.
  
     Syn: Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cash \Cash\, v. t. [See {Cashier}.]
     To disband. [Obs.] --Garges.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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; "I cashed the check as soon as it arrived
           in the mail" [syn: {cash in}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "cash":
     COD, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, amortization,
     amortizement, and pence, available funds, balance in hand,
     banknotes, bills, binder, bread, cash down, cash in, cash in hand,
     cash on delivery, cash payment, cash supply, change,
     circulating medium, clearance, coin, coinage, coined liberty,
     cold cash, convert into cash, currency, debt service, defrayal,
     defrayment, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, dollars,
     dough, down, down payment, earnest, earnest money, emergency money,
     exchange, filthy lucre, fractional currency, gelt, gold, hard cash,
     hard currency, hard money, hire purchase, hire purchase plan,
     immediate resources, installment, installment plan,
     interest payment, jack, legal tender, liquid assets, liquidate,
     liquidation, lolly, loot, lucre, mammon, managed currency, mazuma,
     medium of exchange, mintage, money, money down, money in hand,
     monthly payments, moolah, necessity money, never-never, notes,
     on call, on demand, pay COD, pay at sight, pay cash, pay cash down,
     pay in advance, pay spot cash, pay-as-you-go, paying, paying off,
     paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, pelf,
     postage currency, postal currency, pounds, prepayment,
     quarterly payments, quittance, ready, ready money, realize,
     regular payments, remittance, retirement, satisfaction, scratch,
     scrip, sell, settlement, shekels, shillings, silver,
     sinking-fund payment, soft currency, specie, spot cash, sterling,
     strictly cash, the almighty dollar, the ready, the wherewith,
     the wherewithal, treasury, wampum, weekly payments
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  CASH
       Computer Aided Service Handling (Ashton-Tate), "C.A.S.H."
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CASH, commerce. Money on hand, which a merchant, trader or other person has 
  to do business with. 
       2. Cash price, in contracts, is the price of articles paid for in cash, 
  in contradistinction to the credit price. Pard. n. 85; Chipm. Contr. 110. In 
  common parlance, bank notes are considered as cash; but bills receivable are 
  not. 
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Cash, AR (town, FIPS 11920)
    Location: 35.79982 N, 90.93220 W
    Population (1990): 214 (95 housing units)
    Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 72421

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Cash, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
     Population (2000):    294
     Housing Units (2000): 141
     Land area (2000):     0.365484 sq. miles (0.946600 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.365484 sq. miles (0.946600 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            11920
     Located within:       Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
     Location:             35.798207 N, 90.933464 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     72421
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Cash, AR
      Cash