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cash

noun

1 a wallet stuffed with cash:

money, ready money/cash, currency, legal tender, hard cash;

notes, bank notes;

coins, coinage, coin, coin of the realm, change, silver, copper;

North American bills;

informal dough, bread, loot, shekels, moolah, wad, boodle, dibs, gelt, ducats, rhino, gravy;

British, informal dosh, brass, lolly, spondulicks, wonga, ackers, the ready, readies;

North American, informal greenbacks, dinero, simoleons, bucks, jack, mazuma;

Australian, New Zealand, informal Oscar;

informal , dated splosh, green, tin;

British, dated l.s.d.;

North American, informal , dated kale, rocks, shinplasters;

formal specie.

▷antonyms check, credit.

2 thousands of hospital beds are closing because of a lack of cash:

finance, resources, funds, money, means, assets, wherewithal, capital, investment capital.

verb

the bank cashed her check:

exchange, change, convert into cash/money, turn into cash/money, encash, realize, liquidate;

honor, pay, accept, take.

□ cash in on

the band is cashing in on merchandising:

take advantage of, turn to one's advantage, exploit;

make money from, profit from, do well out of;

milk, bleed, suck dry, squeeze, wring;

informal make a killing out of.