Cash Pay Kæʃ Payment Hard Earned Noun Customers Offered

• how much cash do you have on you?
• customers are offered a 10% discount if they pay cash.
• a cash payment
• payments can be made by card or in cash.

cash

1. money in the form of coins or notes
• SEE ALSO cold cash
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cold-cash
• How much cash do you have on you?
• Customers are offered a 10% discount if they pay cash.
• a cash payment
• Payments can be made by card or in cash.
• The thieves stole £500 in cash.

Extra Examples

• I paid the bill in cash.
• The bank should hold enough cash to satisfy customer demand.
• We'll have to pay cash for the tickets.
• You can pay by cheque or in cash.
2. money in any form
• SEE ALSO e-cash
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/e-cash
• The museum needs to find ways of raising cash.
• I'm short of cash right now.
• I'm constantly strapped for cash (= without enough money).
• Local schools have been starved of cash for a number of years.
• The company is desperate for an injection of cash to ease its debts.

Extra Examples

• The company is strapped for cash.
• She refused to part with her hard-earned cash.
• a chance to make some quick cash
• They had a football match to raise cash for the hospital.
• Imagine having to pay some of my hard-earned cash on a parking fine!
• I refuse to spend my hard-earned cash on presents!
3. with immediate payment of cash
• to pay for something cash down
4. if you pay for goods and services cash in hand, you pay in cash, especially so that the person being paid can avoid paying tax on the amount
• a cash-in-hand payment of £20
5. a system of paying for goods when they are delivered

Word Origin

• late 16th cent. (denoting a box for money): from Old French casse or Italian cassa ‘box’, from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.