CASH IN HAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cash in hand mean? 

• CASH IN HAND (noun)
  The noun CASH IN HAND has 1 sense:

1. assets in the form of money

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASH IN HAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assets in the form of money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

cash in hand; finances; funds; monetary resource; pecuniary resource

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

assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)

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

bank (the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games)

purse strings (financial resources or support)

bankroll; roll (a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.))

pocket (a supply of money)

Medicaid funds (public funds used to pay for Medicaid)

exchequer; treasury (the funds of a government or institution or individual)

money supply (the total stock of money in the economy; currency held by the public plus money in accounts in banks)

escrow funds (funds held in escrow)

matching funds (funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources)

 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)