The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cash \Cash\ (k[a^]sh), n. [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See Case a box.] A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. [Obs.] This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. --Sir W. Temple. [pounds]20,000 are known to be in her cash. --Sir R. Winwood. 2. (Com.)
Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money.
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Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.
Cash account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand.
Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.]
Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or house, having given security for repayment, draws at pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed upon; -- called also bank credit and cash account.
Cash sales, sales made for ready, money, in distinction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction.
Syn: Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.
Usage examples of "cash sales".
And I'm betting there aren't that many cash sales for this sort of thing.
This final Saturday night show before the Civic Auditorium was torn down was their only shot: a full house, all cash sales, no advance sales.