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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#m1)

2) Cash can mean money in general. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#m2)

3) To cash a cheque is to change it into money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x1)
- Mum took some cash out of the cash machine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x2)
- I have five pounds in cash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x3)
- The shop only takes cash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x4)
- She was short of cash this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x5)
- He cashed the cheque at the bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x6)
- Count the cash in the till. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/#x7)
- Keep your cash in a safe pocket. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Some cash machines charge a fee for taking out money, while most bank ones are free.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/18/)
- [Cashback at a shop means taking your own money out as cash while paying by card; it is not a gift.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/20/)
- [Lenders make borrowing look easy: "Cash in minutes!", "Buy now, pay later!".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/4/)
- ["Cashed in his chips" means died; it is American slang taken from card games.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/17/)
- ["Cash-strapped" means short of money, often said of councils, schools or families.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cash» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cash/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.