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  1. noun Money in the form of bills or coins; currency.
  2. noun Payment for goods or services in currency or by check.
  3. transitive verb To exchange for or convert into ready money: cash a check; cash in one's gambling chips.
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  • We all have to admit that with the time in which we live in extra cash is a plus. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • More important than the extra cash was the lesson in perseverance - and ultimately the victory. —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • The decision to grant the cash was a controversial one which split the council down the middle, and was agreed by the tightest margin - 20 to 19. —  The Stage / News Headlines
  • After confirmation the cash will be attained automatically in the bank account of the borrower in a very short time. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Moreover, most of the cash is a contingent liability, in other words it will only be called upon if the IMF's prospective loans to struggling economies actually default − something that is highly unlikely. —  Top Stories - Google News
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money ·  fund ·  income ·  currency ·  credit ·  capital ·  payment ·  equity ·  coin ·  fuel ·  stock ·  saving

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cash:   cashed ·  cashing
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Etymologies (9)

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  1. Obsolete French casse, money box (from Norman French; see case2) or from Italian cassa (from Latin capsa, case).
  2. Portuguese caixa, from Tamil kācu, a small coin.

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  1. Early modern English also cass (q. v.), from Middle English cassen, from Old French casser, discharge, cashier, = Portuguese cassar (obsolete) = Italian cassare, annul, from Latin cassare, bring to naught, destroy, annul, from cassus, empty, void. This is the same word as quash, annul (see quash), but different from quash, ult. from Latin quassare, break: see quash. Cashier is also the same word, with G. suffix: see cashier.
  2. from cash, v.
  3. = Dutch kas, cash, also box, chest, = Swedish kassa = Russian kassa, money, from French casse (English -sh, from F. -sse, cf. quash, abolish, etc.), a box, case, chest, money-box, counter, now a printer's case, a crucible: same word as caisse, a case, etc.: see case and chase, of which cash is a doublet.
  4. from cash, n.
  5. An English corruption of an East Indian word, Telugu and Canarese kāsu, Tamil kās, a small copper coin, also coin-money in general. The Portuguese caixa, a name applied to tin coins found by the Portuguese at Malacca in 1511, brought thither from the Malabar coast in India, is perhaps the same word, accommodation to Portuguese caixa, a case, box, chest, also a cashier, = English cash=case, q. v.
  6. Cf. Irish coislighe, Gael, coisich, a path, from Irish Gael, cos, foot.
  7. Origin uncertain.
 

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