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cashing

cashing is the present participle and gerund of cash.

Meaning of cash

Verb (1)

cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)

  1. (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
    • My single "Lick and Move" had made it to number four on the Top Ten charts, and I had gotten a nice check from Ruthless Rap. I cashed that shit and took Muddah shopping in Midtown and told her to get any damn thing she wanted.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 247
  2. (slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.

Verb (2)

cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)

  1. To disband. To do away with, to kill.
    • He cashed the old souldiers, and supplied their roumes with yong beginners.1564, Arthur Golding, Abridgment of the histories of Trogus Pompeius

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Phrases with cashing

Questions about cashing

What is cashing the present participle and gerund of?
Cashing is the present participle and gerund of cash.

Words near cashing in the dictionary

  1. cashierments
  2. cashiers
  3. cashiers' checks
  4. Cashies
  5. Cashin
  6. cashing
  7. cashing in
  8. cashing in one's chips
  9. cashing out
  10. cashing up
  11. Cashion

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