cash

• n. 現款，現金
• vt. 將…兌現；支付現款
• n. (Cash)人名；(英)卡什

來自case, 箱子，特指錢箱。

cash

cash: [16] Cash originally meant ‘money-box’. English acquired it via French casse or Italian cassa from Latin capsa ‘box’ (source of English case). It was not until the mid 18th century that this underlying sense died out, leaving the secondary ‘money’ (which had already developed before the word entered English). Cashier ‘person in charge of money’ [16] is a derivative, coming from French caissier or perhaps from Dutch cassier, but the verb cashier ‘dismiss’ [16] is completely unrelated.

It comes from Dutch casseren, a borrowing from Old French casser ‘discharge, annul’. This in turn goes back to Latin quassāre ‘break up’, source of English quash.
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cash (n.)

1590s, "money box;" also "money in hand, coin," from Middle French caisse "money box" (16c.), from Proven?al caissa or Italian cassa, from Latin capsa "box" (see case (n.2)); originally the money box, but the secondary sense of the money in it became sole meaning 18c. Cash crop is attested from 1831; cash flow from 1954; the mechanical cash register from 1878.

Like many financial terms in English (bankrupt, etc.), ultimately from Italian. Not related to (but influencing the form of) the colonial British cash "Indian monetary system, Chinese coin, etc.," which is from Tamil kasu, Sanskrit karsha, Sinhalese kasi.

cash (v.)

"to convert to cash" (as a check, etc.), 1811, from cash (n.). Encash (1865) also was sometimes used. Related: Cashed; cashing.

1. All the bills had the same serial number. The cash was counterfeit.

所有鈔票的序列號都是一樣的。這些錢是偽鈔。

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2. This, after all, is a company which is awash with cash.

這畢竟是一家現金充裕的公司。

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3. The war against drug peddling is all about cash.

禁毒斗爭歸根到底是錢的問題。

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4. They prefer to bargain with individual clients, for cash.

在現款方面，他們更愿意同散戶打交道。

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5. How can I accumulate enough cash to get out of debt?

我怎么才能攢足錢還清債務呢？

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