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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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.] [1913 Webster] This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster] [pounds]20,000 are known to be in her cash. --Sir R. Winwood. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Cash \Cash\, v. t. [See {Cashier}.] To disband. [Obs.] --Garges. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Cash \Cash\, n. sing. & pl. A Chinese coin. [1913 Webster] 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) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: 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}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: CASH Computer Aided Service Handling (Ashton-Tate), "C.A.S.H." From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: cash /kɛʃ/ incash