CASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cash mean? 

• CASH (noun)
  The noun CASH has 3 senses:

1. money in the form of bills or coins

2. prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check

3. United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)

  Familiarity information: CASH used as a noun is uncommon.

• CASH (verb)
  The verb CASH has 1 sense:

1. exchange for cash

  Familiarity information: CASH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Money in the form of bills or coins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

cash; hard cash; hard currency

Context example:

there is a desperate shortage of hard cash

Hypernyms ("cash" is a kind of...):

currency (the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cash"):

change (money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency)

change (the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due)

chickenfeed; chump change; small change (a trifling sum of money)

pin money; pocket money; spending money (cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses)

cold cash; ready cash; ready money (money in the form of cash that is readily available)

Derivation:

cash (exchange for cash)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

cash; immediate payment

Hypernyms ("cash" is a kind of...):

payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)

Antonym:

credit (arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cash; John Cash; Johnny Cash

Instance hypernyms:

singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)

• CASH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cash    ... he / she / it cashes   
Past simple: cashed   
Past participle: cashed   
-ing form: cashing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exchange for cash

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cash; cash in

Context example:

I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail

Hypernyms (to "cash" is one way to...):

change; exchange; interchange (give to, and receive from, one another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cash"):

liquidate (convert into cash)

redeem (convert into cash; of commercial papers)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Also:

cash in on (take advantage of or capitalize on)

Derivation:

cash (money in the form of bills or coins)

cashable (able to be converted into ready money or the equivalent)

 Context examples 

The difference is that this month, December 2019, and into January 2020, will be especially strong for seeing an influx of cash.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You are very right in supposing how my money would be spent—some of it, at least—my loose cash would certainly be employed in improving my collection of music and books.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Payment in hard cash when goods delivered.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Limited partners also enjoy rights to the partnership's cash flow, but are not liable for company obligations.

(Limited Partnership, NCI Thesaurus)

When these horse-keeping farmers need cash, they track down their horses in the forest and sell them.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

The upstairs he could rent, and the whole ground-floor of both buildings would be Higginbotham's Cash Store.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“All I get is fifty for it,” he grumbled; “an’ I wouldn’t do it over for a thousand, cold cash.”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Just let me look at the cash.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Neither one nor t'other; I might have got it for less, I dare say; but I hate haggling, and poor Freeman wanted cash.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

At present, believe me, I have no need of your services, being in cash again.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)