CASH
Dictionary entry overview: What does Cash mean?
• CASH (noun)
The noun CASH has 3 senses:
1. money in the form of bills or coins
2. prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
3. United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)
Familiarity information: CASH used as a noun is uncommon.
• CASH (verb)
The verb CASH has 1 sense:
1. exchange for cash
Familiarity information: CASH used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CASH (noun)
Meaning:
Money in the form of bills or coins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
hard cash; cash; hard currency
Context example:
there is a desperate shortage of hard cash
Hypernyms ("cash" is a kind of...):
currency (the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cash"):
change (money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency)
change (the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due)
chickenfeed; chump change; small change (a trifling sum of money)
pin money; pocket money; spending money (cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses)
cold cash; ready cash; ready money (money in the form of cash that is readily available)
Meaning:
Prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
immediate payment; cash
Hypernyms ("cash" is a kind of...):
payment (a sum of money paid)
Antonym:
credit (arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services)
Meaning:
United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
John Cash; Johnny Cash; Cash
Instance hypernyms:
singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)
• CASH (verb)
Meaning:
Exchange for cash
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
cash; cash in
Context example:
I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail
Hypernyms (to "cash" is one way to...):
change; exchange; interchange (give to, and receive from, one another)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cash"):
liquidate (convert into cash)
redeem (convert into cash; of commercial papers)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Also:
cash in on (take advantage of or capitalize on)
