cash

Plural: cash, cashes

Noun

money in the form of bills or coins
- "there is a desperate shortage of hard cash"
prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)
Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.
Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
Money.
Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
An instance of winning a cash prize.
A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.
Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin.

Verb

Verb Forms: cashed, cashing, cashes

To convert into ready money; to exchange for funds.
exchange for cash
- "I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail"
To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
To obtain a payout from a tournament.
To disband. To do away with, to kill.

Adj

Great; excellent; cool.

Examples

After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
He tried to CASH in on the triple word score, but his word didn’t fit.
Let me just bring these to the cash for you.

Origin / Etymology

From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).

Synonyms

cash in, hard cash, hard currency, immediate payment, John Cash, Johnny Cash

Antonyms

credit

Scrabble Score: 9

cash: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cash: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cash: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

cash: valid Words With Friends Word