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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. [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\, v. t. [See {Cashier}.]
To disband. [Obs.] --Garges.
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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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