cash 1   (kāsh)    n.   Money in the form of bills or coins; currency. Payment for goods or services in currency or by check. tr.v.   cashed, cash·ing, cash·es To exchange for or convert into ready money: cash a check; cash in one's gambling chips. Phrasal Verbs: cash in To withdraw from a venture by or as if by settling one's account. Informal To obtain a profit or other advantage by timely exploitation: Profiteers cashed in during the gasoline shortage. Slang To die. Phrasal Verb(s): cash in To withdraw from a venture by or as if by settling one's account. Informal To obtain a profit or other advantage by timely exploitation: Profiteers cashed in during the gasoline shortage. Slang To die. cash outTo dispose of a long-held asset for profit: Hard-pressed farmers are tempted to cash out by selling their valuable land. Idiom(s): cash on the barrelheadImmediate payment: You must pay cash on the barrelhead; we don't offer credit. [Obsolete French casse, money box (from Norman French; see case2) or from Italian cassa (from Latin capsa, case).] cash'less adj.

Cash

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.

[pounds]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.

Syn: Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.

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Cash

Legal tender or coins that can be used in exchange goods, debt, or services. Sometimes also including the value of assets that can be converted into cash immediately, as reported by a company.

Investopedia Commentary

This usually includes bank accounts and marketable securities, such as government bonds and banker's acceptances.

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See also: Buying Power, Cash Account, Cash And Cash Equivalents, Cash Budget, Cash Dividend, Cash Flow, Cash Investment, Currency, Petty Cash

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Coins and currency on hand and in checking account balances. Because cash is a nonearning asset, firms usually attempt to keep their cash balances to the minimum level required to sustain operations.

Main Entry: cash
Function: noun
1 : ready money
2 : money or its equivalent (as a check) paid for goods or services at the time of purchase or delivery—cash against documents : a sight draft in exchange for a bill of lading cash against documents>

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In addition to the idioms beginning with cash, also see cold cash.