What is "cashing"

Usage examples of "cashing".

There is an immense amount of pornography of a mild sort, countless illustrated papers cashing in on women's legs, but there is no popular literature specializing in the "vulgar", farcical aspect of sex.

He was, however, cashing in on his earlier political history and on having never sold out his political opinions.

Malone thanked providence he hadn't wasted any time cashing the check.

Basic conservatism would not allow him to leave his money behind, and besides, he was concerned about where the market was heading, and so he was taking it all out, cashing in and switching over to a more conservative manager.

In liquidating the bonds, they were just cashing in, albeit in a large way, on the relative change in values of dollar and yen.

Somebody got nervous on T-Bills, most likely guess right now is that somebody was cashing in on relative changes between the dollar and the yen, and things got a little out of hand.

Now, as to the four minutes that elapsed between Davis's going out and your cashing the cheque: do you say that you recollect nothing during those four minutes?

Where these checks I wrote bounced so they won't let me write any more because this other person may be cashing them who's going around being me?

I mean thank God I had my wits about me when those two vultures were going through every drawer in the place, that Masha picking through Harry's Turnbull and Asser shirts where he kept enough cash not to have to bother cashing checks every ten minutes if she got there before I did I'd simply have died.