Cash /(kăsh)/

Cash

n.
  1. 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.
    £20,000 are known to be in her cash.
    — Sir R. Winwood.
  2. Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money (Com.)

Phrases & Compounds
Cash account
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.
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.

Cash

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Cashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Casing

  1. To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.

Cash

v. t.
  1. To disband. [Obs.]

Cash

n. sing. & pl.
  1. A Chinese coin.