Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An account of money received, paid, or on hand.
- noun In banking, a credit given by a bank to an amount agreed upon to any individual or house of business on receipt of a bond with securities, generally two in number, for the repayment on demand of the sums actually advanced, with interest on each advance from the day on which it was made.
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Examples
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In Washington's cash-account for May, Seventeen Hundred Fifty-eight, is an item, “one Engagement Ring L2.16.0.”
Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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Come, I will put away my drawing for to-day, and finish the copy of papa's quarterly cash-account for those dreadful
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The, banker's clerk, who was directed to sum my cash-account, blundered it three times, being disordered by the recollection of his military tellings-off at the morning-drill.
The Antiquary 1845
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The liberty especially which has to purchase itself by social isolation, and each man standing separate from the other, having 'no business with him' but a cash-account: this is such a liberty as the Earth seldom saw; -- as the Earth will not long put up with, recommend it how you may.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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-- Nay what a shallow delusion is this we have all got into, That any man should or can keep himself apart from men, have 'no business' with them, except a cash-account 'business'!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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I consider that a cash-account, and balance-statement of work done and wages paid, worth attending to.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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That any man should or can keep himself apart from men, have 'no business' with them, except a cash-account business! '
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Your Grace and Plugson, it is like, go to Church occasionally: did you never in vacant moments, with perhaps a dull parson droning to you, glance into your New Testament, and the cash-account stated four times over, by a kind of quadruple entry, -- in the Four Gospels there?
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The liberty especially which has to purchase itself by social isolation, and each man standing separate from the other, having 'no business with him' but a cash-account: this is such a liberty as the Earth seldom saw; -- as the Earth will not long put up with, recommend it how you may.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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I consider that a cash-account, and balance-statement of work done and wages paid, worth attending to.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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