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Webster 1913 Edition

Cash

Cash

(kăsh)
,
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.
£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
.
Syn. – Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.

Cash

,
Verb.
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
.

Cash

,
Verb.
T.
[See
Cashier
.]
To disband.
[Obs.]
Garges.

Cash

,
Noun.
s
ing.
&
pl.
A Chinese coin.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cash

CASH

,
Noun.
Money; primarily, ready money, money in chest or on hand, in bank or at command. It is properly silver and gold; but since the institution of banks, it denotes also bank notes equivalent to money. To pay in cash is opposed to payment in goods, commodities, or labor, as in barter.

CASH

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To turn into money, or to exchange for money; as, to cash a note or an order.
2.
To pay money for; as, the clerks of a bank cash notes when presented.

CASH

,
Verb.
T.
To discard.

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