cash

“there is a desperate shortage of hard cash”

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money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency; change
the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due; chickenfeed, chump change, small change
a trifling sum of money; pin money, pocket money, spending money
cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses; cold cash, ready cash, ready money
money in the form of cash that is readily available

Type of:: currency
the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used

Antonyms:: credit, deferred payment
arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services

“I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail”

Types:: liquidate
convert into cash; redeem
convert into cash; of commercial papers

Type of:: change, exchange, interchange
give to, and receive from, one another

DEFINITIONS OF: cash