cash

Meanings

Noun

• Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks 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.
• Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.

Verb

• 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, kill

Adjective

• Great; excellent; cool.

Origin

• From Anglo-Norman Old French casse ("money box"), from Latin capsa ("box, case"), ultimately from capiō, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- ("to grasp"). case. Compare Spanish caja ("box").
• From Tamil காசு.
• See cashier.