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cash
What does cash mean?
cash (noun): money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks, credit or electronic transactions.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use cash in a sentence?
- There is a desperate shortage of hard cash. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce cash?
/kæʃ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does cash come from?
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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