cash

«cash» in Mova's school dictionary: money in coins and notes, not on a card — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

1) Cash is money in coins and notes, not on a card. tree →

2) Cash can mean money in general. tree →

3) To cash a cheque is to change it into money. tree →

sense 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 →
• Mum took some cash out of the cash machine. tree →
• I have five pounds in cash. tree →
• The shop only takes cash. tree →
• She was short of cash this week. tree →
• He cashed the cheque at the bank. tree →
• Count the cash in the till. tree →
• Keep your cash in a safe pocket. tree →
• 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 →

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.

In the corpora

• Some cash machines charge a fee for taking out money, while most bank ones are free.
• Cashback at a shop means taking your own money out as cash while paying by card; it is not a gift.
• Lenders make borrowing look easy: "Cash in minutes!", "Buy now, pay later!".
• "Cashed in his chips" means died; it is American slang taken from card games.
• "Cash-strapped" means short of money, often said of councils, schools or families.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cash» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.