cash

cash
    n 1: money in the form of bills or coins; "there is a desperate
         shortage of hard cash" [syn: {cash}, {hard cash}, {hard
         currency}]
    2: prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
       [syn: {cash}, {immediate payment}] [ant: {credit}, {deferred
       payment}]
    3: United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)
       [syn: {Cash}, {Johnny Cash}, {John Cash}]
    v 1: exchange for cash; "I cashed the check as soon as it
         arrived in the mail" [syn: {cash}, {cash in}]
    

Cash \Cash\, n. sing. & pl.
   A Chinese coin.
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   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.
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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.
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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.]
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         This bank is properly a general cash, where every man
         lodges his money.                        --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.
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         [pounds]20,000 are known to be in her cash. --Sir R.
                                                  Winwood.
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   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.
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   {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 \Cash\, v. t. [See {Cashier}.]
   To disband. [Obs.] --Garges.
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CASH
       Computer Aided Service Handling (Ashton-Tate), "C.A.S.H."
       
    

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
    

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
    

CASH, commerce. Money on hand, which a merchant, trader or other person has 
to do business with. 
     2. Cash price, in contracts, is the price of articles paid for in cash, 
in contradistinction to the credit price. Pard. n. 85; Chipm. Contr. 110. In 
common parlance, bank notes are considered as cash; but bills receivable are 
not. 
    

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