Cash (?), n. [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See Case a box.]
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.
�x9c;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.
<-- cash on the nail. A cash payment made immediately upon receiving the thing purchased. -->
Syn. -- Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.
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Cash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Casing.]
To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
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Cash, v. t. [See Cashier.]
To disband.
[Obs.]
Garges.
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Cash, n.sing & pl.
A Chinese coin.
⇒ 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.
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