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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cash \Cash\ (k[a^]sh), noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cash \Cash\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cash \Cash\, verb (used with an object) [See {Cashier}.] To disband. [Obs.] --Garges.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cash \Cash\, noun sing. & pl. A Chinese coin.
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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cash
noun
1: money in the form of bills or coins [syn: {hard cash}, {hard currency}]
2: prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check [syn: {immediate payment}] [ant: {credit}]
verb: exchange for cash; "I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail" [syn: {cash in}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "cash": COD, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, amortization, amortizement, and pence, available funds, balance in hand, banknotes, bills, binder, bread, cash down, cash in, cash in hand, cash on delivery, cash payment, cash supply, change, circulating medium, clearance, coin, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, convert into cash, currency, debt service, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, disbursal, discharge, doling out, dollars, dough, down, down payment, earnest, earnest money, emergency money, exchange, filthy lucre, fractional currency, gelt, gold, hard cash, hard currency, hard money, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, immediate resources, installment, installment plan, interest payment, jack, legal tender, liquid assets, liquidate, liquidation, lolly, loot, lucre, mammon, managed currency, mazuma, medium of exchange, mintage, money, money down, money in hand, monthly payments, moolah, necessity money, never-never, notes, on call, on demand, pay COD, pay at sight, pay cash, pay cash down, pay in advance, pay spot cash, pay-as-you-go, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, pelf, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, prepayment, quarterly payments, quittance, ready, ready money, realize, regular payments, remittance, retirement, satisfaction, scratch, scrip, sell, settlement, shekels, shillings, silver, sinking-fund payment, soft currency, specie, spot cash, sterling, strictly cash, the almighty dollar, the ready, the wherewith, the wherewithal, treasury, wampum, weekly payments
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Cash, AR (town, FIPS 11920) Location: 35.79982 N, 90.93220 W Population (1990): 214 (95 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72421
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
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. Headwords: Cash, AR Cash
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
CASH Computer Aided Service Handling (Ashton-Tate), "C.A.S.H."
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