Cash

Quick meaning: Cash is a noun meaning (uncountable) Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.

Meaning

(uncountable) Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, informal) Money.
2. (countable, Canada) Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
3. (countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.
4. (countable, archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
5. (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
6. (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
7. (uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.

Example Sentences

Let me just bring these to the cash for you.

After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.

Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […].

This bank[…] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money,

Word Forms

• cashes
• cashing
• cashed

Synonyms for cash

Depending on context, synonyms include cash in.

Antonyms for cash

Common opposites include credit.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cash in, currency, encashment, financial, capital, money.

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