CASH IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cash in mean? 

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

1. exchange for cash

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASH IN (verb)

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 in" is one way to...):

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

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

liquidate (convert into cash)

redeem (convert into cash; of commercial papers)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

The last check but one paid her bill at Lausanne, but it was a large one and probably left her with cash in hand.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Eventually, some Wolong farmers, though not traditionally horse-keepers, learned from horse-keeping friends who lived outside of the reserve that they too could cash in by keeping horses—and letting them loose to graze unattended in Wolong.

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