cash out

verb5

1. •
   (US) To retire; to exchange gambling chips for money when finished gambling.
2. •
   To exchange possession of any commodity or idea for cash.
3. •
   (informal) To give up on something.

   • If you can't even succeed with him, you might as well cash out.
4. •
   (US) To reconcile at the end of a shift; to compare receipts of items sold to records of credit card, check and cash placed into the drawer, verifying that correct change was given out by the clerk.
5. •
   To explain what is entailed by an idea or proposition.

   • Hume cashed out the concept of causation into such experiential terms as spatiotemporal contiguity, temporal succession, and constant conjunction.