01 n. A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
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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.“£20,000 are known to be in her cash.” — Sir R. Winwood.
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2.
Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money(Com.)
Phrases & compounds
Cash account —
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.
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.