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English Dictionary: cash by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cash
n
  1. money in the form of bills or coins; "there is a desperate shortage of hard cash"
    Synonym(s): cash, hard cash, hard currency
  2. prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
    Synonym(s): cash, immediate payment
    Antonym(s): credit, deferred payment
  3. United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)
    Synonym(s): Cash, Johnny Cash, John Cash
v
  1. exchange for cash; "I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail"
    Synonym(s): cash, cash in
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cash \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cash \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.
  
               [9c]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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cash \Cash\, v. t. [See {Cashier}.]
      To disband. [Obs.] --Garges.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cash \Cash\, n.sing & pl.
      A Chinese coin.
  
      Note: 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.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Cash, AR (town, FIPS 11920)
      Location: 35.79982 N, 90.93220 W
      Population (1990): 214 (95 housing units)
      Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 72421
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