cashes

Noun

cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)

1. (usually) Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.
   • How are you off for cash? After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.

   Synonyms:

   cash money, cold hard cash

2. (usually) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
   • Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […].2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68
3. (informal, usually) Money.
   • Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget.2017, Erin Lowry, Broke Millennial, page 146
4. (Canada, countable, usually) Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
   • Let me just bring these to the cash for you.
5. (countable, usually) An instance of winning a cash prize.
   • In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.2012, Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 2
6. (archaic, countable, usually) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
   • This bank[…] is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money,1787 [1764], Adam Anderson, quoting William Temple, An Historical And Chronological Deduction Of The Origin Of Commerce, From the Earliest Accounts, volume 1, page 236

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