Cash

n.	1.	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. - Sir W. Temple. £20,000 are known to be in her cash. - Sir R. Winwood.
	2.	(Com.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money 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. 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.
v. t.	1.	To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order. [imp. & p. p. Cashed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Casing.]
	1.	To disband.
n. sing. &	1.	A Chinese coin.

Noun	1.	cash - money in the form of bills or coins Synonyms: hard cash, hard currency
	2.	cash - prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check Synonyms: immediate payment Antonyms: deferred payment, credit - arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services
Verb	1.	cash - exchange for cash; "I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail" Synonyms: cash in

CASH, commerce. Money on hand, which a merchant, trader or other person has to do business with.
     2. Cash price, in contracts, is the price of articles paid for in cash, in contradistinction to the credit price. Pard. n. 85; Chipm. Contr. 110. In common parlance, bank notes are considered as cash; but bills receivable are not.

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