Thesaurus: cash

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1. n. A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
2. n. Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money
3. n. Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.
4. v. t. To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
5. v. t. To disband.
6. n.sing & pl. A Chinese coin.
7. n. money in the form of bills or coins
8. n. prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
9. v. exchange for cash
10. 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. £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. Syn. -- Money; coin; specie; currency; capital. To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order. To disband. [Obs.] Garges. 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.
11. A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paidout; a money box. [Obs.]This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges hismoney. Sir W. Temple.£20,000 are known to be in her cash. Sir R. Winwood.
12. v:11/n:89 n. money in the form of bills or coins n. prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check n. United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003) v. exchange for cash