Cash (?), 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.]
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.
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.
Cash, n.sing & pl. A Chinese
coin.
☞ The cash (Chinese tsien) is 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 are equivalent to a
dollar.
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.
Cash, v. t. [See Cashier.]
To disband. [Obs.] Garges.