'CASH' definitions:

Definition of 'cash'

From: WordNet
noun
Money in the form of bills or coins; "there is a desperate shortage of hard cash" [syn: cash, hard cash, hard currency]
noun
Prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check [syn: cash, immediate payment] [ant: credit, deferred payment]
noun
United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003) [syn: Cash, Johnny Cash, John Cash]
verb
Exchange for cash; "I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail" [syn: cash, cash in]

Definition of 'Cash'

From: GCIDE
  • Cash \Cash\ (k[a^]sh), 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
  • [pounds]20,000 are known to be in her cash. --Sir R. Winwood. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Cash'

From: GCIDE
  • Cash \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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Cash'

From: GCIDE
  • Cash \Cash\, v. t. [See Cashier.] To disband. [Obs.] --Garges. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Cash'

From: GCIDE
  • Cash \Cash\, n. sing. & pl. A Chinese coin. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In 1913 the cash (Chinese tsien) was 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 were equivalent to a dollar. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Synonyms of 'cash'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Acronyms for 'CASH'

From: V.E.R.A.
  • Computer Aided Service Handling (Ashton-Tate), "C.A.S.H."

Cash, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Cash, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000) :
294
Housing Units (2000) :
141
Land area (2000) :
0.365484 sq. miles (0.946600 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.365484 sq. miles (0.946600 sq. km)
FIPS code :
11920
Located within :
Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location :
35.798207 N, 90.933464 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
72421
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

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