cash
verb/kæʃ/
/kæʃ/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they cash | /kæʃ/ /kæʃ/ |
| he / she / it cashes | /ˈkæʃɪz/ /ˈkæʃɪz/ |
| past simple cashed | /kæʃt/ /kæʃt/ |
| past participle cashed | /kæʃt/ /kæʃt/ |
| -ing form cashing | /ˈkæʃɪŋ/ /ˈkæʃɪŋ/ |
- cash a cheque to exchange a cheque for the amount of money that it is worth
- At that time, traveller's cheques could be cashed at most hotels.
- The company cashed my cheque but then failed to send the goods I’d ordered.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a box for money): from Old French casse or Italian cassa ‘box’, from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.
Idioms
See cash in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarycash in your chips
- (informal) to die
- He cashed in his chips last summer aged 65.
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