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  1. 1. n. A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money Source: opted
  3. 3. n. Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. To disband. Source: opted
  6. 6. n.sing & pl. A Chinese coin. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. money in the form of bills or coins Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check Source: wordnet
  9. 9. v. exchange for cash Source: wordnet
  10. 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. Source: webster
  11. 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. Source: adambom
  12. 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 Source: ecdict

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