資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cash \Cash\, n. [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See {Case}
a box.]
A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and
paid out; a money box. [Obs.]
This bank is properly a general cash, where every man
lodges his money. --Sir W.
Temple.
[pounds]20,000 are known to be in her cash. --Sir R.
Winwood.
2. (Com.)
(a) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also
applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper
easily convertible into money.
(b) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to
sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for
cash.
{Cash account} (Bookkeeping), an account of money received,
disbursed, and on hand.
{Cash boy}, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries
the money received by the salesman from customers to a
cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.]
{Cash credit}, an account with a bank by which a person or
house, having given security for repayment, draws at
pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed
upon; -- called also {bank credit} and {cash account}.
{Cash sales}, sales made for ready, money, in distinction
from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be
delivered on the day of transaction.