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# cash

noun (cash); verb (cash, cashes, cashed, cashing)

«cash» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Cash is money in coins and notes, not on a card. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#m1)
2. Cash can mean money in general. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#m2)
3. To cash a cheque is to change it into money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#m3)

### In the lessons

In maths lessons pupils pay in cash, count coins and notes and work out change. In everyday life people pay by cash or card; a cash machine gives out money. In safety lessons do not show a lot of cash in public. Phrases: pay in cash, cash machine, cash register, cash back, short of cash, cash in on.

### Examples

- Can I pay in cash? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x1)
- Mum took some cash out of the cash machine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x2)
- I have five pounds in cash. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x3)
- The shop only takes cash. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x4)
- She was short of cash this week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x5)
- He cashed the cheque at the bank. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x6)
- Count the cash in the till. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x7)
- Keep your cash in a safe pocket. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x8)
- Take a good sum of money with you, too; for who knows but what he may want some cash now that he has turned a merchant!’ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x9)

### Note

Uncountable noun: «some cash», «a lot of cash», not «a cash» or «cashes». «Cash» sounds like «cache» (a hidden store). In money problems, change = cash given minus the price.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cash» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cash» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cash.html) on Mova free.