different between cash vs cashable

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?sh, IPA^(key): /kæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?
• Homophone: cache

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman Old French casse (“money box”), from Latin capsa (“box, case”), ultimately from capi? (“I take, I seize, I receive”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh?p- (“to grasp”). Doublet of case.

Noun

cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)

1. (uncountable) Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
2. (uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
3. (uncountable, informal) Money.
4. (countable, 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. (countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.
6. (countable, archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (kyasshu)
• ? Serbo-Croatian: k?š, ????
• ? Swedish: cash

Translations

See also

• small, unmarked bills

Verb

cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)

1. (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
2. (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

cash (comparative more cash, superlative most cash)

1. (slang) Great; excellent; cool.

Etymology 2

From Tamil ???? (k?cu).

Noun

cash (plural cashes or cash)

1. Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.

Translations

References

Etymology 3

See cashier.

Verb

cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)

1. To disband. To do away with, kill

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Anagrams

• ACHs, CAHs, Chas, HCAs, achs, cahs

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• cashu

Etymology

From Latin c?seus. Compare Romanian ca?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/

Noun

cash n (plural cãshuri)

1. cheese

Synonyms

• brãndzã

Derived terms

• cãshirlichi
• cãshat

Related terms

• cãshar
• cãshari

See also

• cãshcãval

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/
• Hyphenation: cash

Noun

cash m (uncountable)

1. (informal) cash

Adjective

cash (invariable, not comparable)

1. (informal, of money) In coins and bills/notes.
   • Heb je cash geld? — Do you have cash?

Synonyms

• baar

French

Etymology

From English cash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/

Adverb

cash

1. (colloquial) in cash (of paying)
2. (colloquial) bluntly, directly, straight up

Further reading

• “cash” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• chas

English

Etymology

cash +? -able

Adjective

cashable (comparative more cashable, superlative most cashable)

1. Able to be converted into cash

Synonyms

• liquid

Anagrams

• calebash, chasable