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cash in hand

cash in hand adjective: receiving wages or salary directly in the form of cash, often without deducting tax.

Adjective

cash in hand (not comparable)

  1. Receiving wages or salary directly in the form of cash, often without deducting tax.
    • Many high school students get cash in hand jobs for extra pocket money.

Adverb

cash in hand (not comparable)

  1. In a manner receiving direct payment by cash, often without paying tax.
    • I heard he's working at that restaurant cash in hand to pay the bills.

Noun

cash in hand (uncountable)

  1. Direct payment by cash, as opposed to through a bank.
    • This cash in hand will come in handy as spending money on my trip to Asia.
  2. Unbanked, undeposited monies.

cash in hand meaning in Tamil and Kannada

cash in hand in Tamil

கைப்பணம்

cash in hand in Kannada

ಕೈ ನಗದು

Questions about cash in hand

What does cash in hand mean?
Cash in hand means receiving wages or salary directly in the form of cash, often without deducting tax.
What is cash in hand in Tamil?
Cash in hand in Tamil is கைப்பணம். See Cash in hand meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cash in hand?
Cash in hand can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.

Words near cash in hand in the dictionary

  1. cash game
  2. cash games
  3. cash grab
  4. cash grabs
  5. cash in
  6. cash in hand
  7. cash in one's chips
  8. cash instrument
  9. cash instruments
  10. cash is king
  11. cash leakage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cash in hand (page history and authors); cash in hand (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cash in hand (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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