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Vinony

cash

noun

  1. paper money or coins
  2. one of several historical units of currency used in Asia
  3. unit of mass
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verb

  1. convert a check or other financial instrument to currency
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkæʃ/ / [ˈkʰæʃ]

adj

Etymology: From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).

  1. Great; excellent; cool.

name

Etymology: Variant of Case. In the US adopted by German immigrants named Kirch and Kirsch.

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

    “This ill-chosen subplot also means that Kingsolver must make Cash Stillwater (named for his mother's favorite singer, Johnny Cash) more than just a returning widower.”

  3. A number of places in the United States:
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noun

Etymology: Variant of earlier cass under influence from cash above, from Tamil காசு (kācu), ultimately from Sanskrit karsha ("weight of 1/400 tulā, तुला"). Extended to other similar forms of low-denomination coins in Southeast and East Asia following the example of cognate Portuguese cas, casse, caxa, caixa.

  1. The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.
  2. Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin.

    “Shentzŭ is the Chinese name for what we would call a mule litter. As this conveyance can go over almost any kind of road, I decided on it, and engaged two mules for the litter, and a donkey for the baggage: the three animals with the shentzŭ and a man cost 1300 cash per day when we travelled, and 700 cash per day when we rested from any cause.”

verb

Etymology: See cashier.

  1. To disband. To do away with, to kill.

    “He cashed the old souldiers, and supplied their roumes with yong beginners.”