cash

noun8

1. •
   paper and metal money, not a check, a card or a payment made online

   • How are you off for cash? After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.
2. •
   Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.

   • Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […]. — 2013
3. •
   (informal) Money.

   • Paying yourself first also implies that you have some understanding of your cash flow, which means that, yes, you must set a budget. — 2017
4. •
   (Canada) Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.

   • Let me just bring these to the cash for you.
5. •
   An instance of winning a cash prize.

   • In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI. — 2012
6. •
   (historical) The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.
7. •
   (historical) Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin.
8. •
   (no longer used) 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, — 1787

verb3

1. •
   To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
2. •
   (slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
3. •
   To disband. To do away with, to kill.

   • He cashed the old souldiers, and supplied their roumes with yong beginners. — 1564

adjective1

1. •
   (slang) Great; excellent; cool.

noun2

1. •
   Acronym of calcium aluminium silicate hydrate.
2. •
   (US) Acronym of Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health.