cash

noun
/ˈkæʃ/

Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.

Example

“After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.”

Other meanings

Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
An instance of winning a cash prize.

Synonyms

hard cash
hard currency

Example sentences

“There's no money in the cash register.”
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“That wasn't very cash money of you.”
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“Is there an open bar or a cash bar?”
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Word history

From Latin "capsa" (box).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “cash” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.