What's the difference between cash and clash?

Cash


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
  • (n.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money
  • (n.) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.
  • (v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
  • (v. t.) To disband.
  • (n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (2) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
  • (3) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (5) It is clear that the linking of the naming rights to West Ham United generates real cash value for the LLDC and the taxpayer.
  • (6) As part of the shake-up, the rule that says only half can be saved in cash is being abolished.
  • (7) He would still lose some of his original cash, but it would be less.
  • (8) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
  • (9) One of the big sticking points is cash – with rich countries so far failing to live up to promise to mobilise $100bn a year by 2020 for climate finance .
  • (10) Juliette Touma, Unicef’s spokeswoman in Jordan, said: “The focus in the past week has been on the refugees in Europe, but it is important to make the link to Syria, where 70% to 80% [of them] have come from.” She said the UK has been one of its biggest donors, but the public can help by giving cash and becoming advocates, writing to their MPs and holding fundraising events.
  • (11) The audit states: "The financial position of Zuma deteriorated over time, mainly as a result of the fact of the shortage in daily funding required to fund his lifestyle … Zuma's cash requirements by far exceeded his ability to fund such requirements from his salary."
  • (12) That’s precisely the point made by Jubilee Debt Campaign: the reckless lenders that poured speculative cash into the country in the runup to the crisis escaped largely unscathed (though they were forced to accept some reduction in the face value of their bonds – known as a haircut – in the 2012 restructuring that accompanied Greece’s second emergency bailout).
  • (13) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
  • (14) In June it warned that some revenues from 31 of about 200 social housing contracts had been deferred hitting the amount of cash coming into the business.
  • (15) Vimeo has been less successful in convincing its audience to part ways with actual cash.
  • (16) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
  • (17) The cash would have fed swiftly into demand, with negligible risk of inflation.
  • (18) The award to Sorrell is thought to be the second-largest granted to a FTSE 100 chief executive, behind only the £92m in shares and cash paid to Bart Becht while he was chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser in 2009.
  • (19) The insatiable growth of the NHS's demands for cash have never been more graphically illustrated than under the present government.
  • (20) He believed retail deposits, where cash is not being held for investments, were currently "broadly stable".

Clash


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
  • (v. i.) To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.
  • (v. t.) To strike noisily against or together.
  • (n.) A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.
  • (n.) Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
  • (2) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (3) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (4) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
  • (5) The early evening clashes brought a dramatic end to a day that had started off with three large funeral rallies through the suburbs of Manama.
  • (6) Two men were arrested before the north London derby as football fans clashed with police.
  • (7) Gunfire and explosions rocked Bangkok following clashes between pro-government "red shirts" and protesters, leading to fears of further violence as Thais head to the polls.
  • (8) The clash is the latest in a deadly stream of attacks since July, which officials said had already claimed the lives of at least 70 members of the security services and hundreds of PKK militants.
  • (9) Clashes between the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and the Kurdish president, Massoud Barzani, have been escalating since the US withdrawal at the end of 2011, leading to speculation about the declaration of an independent Kurdish state .
  • (10) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.
  • (11) 8.56pm BST Howard Amos, who spent this afternoon and evening in Odessa on the scene of clashes between pro-Kiev and pro-Moscow protesters , has filed a report on what he saw.
  • (12) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
  • (13) It also creates the potential for clashes in the studio between BNP members and anti-racism groups who have also urged supporters to try to join the audience.
  • (14) One source familiar with the campaign said Lewandowski had clashed with Ivanka Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner, and was even trying to plant negative stories about Trump’s son-in-law in the press.
  • (15) The Ivory Coast international Sagbo had won the penalty from which Hull scored through Robbie Brady – a decision labelled "incredibly soft" by the Norwich manager, Chris Hughton – but minutes later was sent off after he clashed with Russell Martin.
  • (16) Pro- and anti-GM organisations clashed on Tuesday over the accuracy of industry figures that suggested a rise internationally of 8% in the acreage of GM crops in 2011, a 16th straight rise since they were first sold in 1996.
  • (17) While the Associated Press reported that there were "concerns [the march] would provoke clashes between gays and their opponents", Mayorov told Interfax that the city's decision rested on their wish to "respect morality in the education of the younger generation".
  • (18) Several of the candidates who ran against Lukashenko were arrested and the top opposition leader, Vladimir Neklyaev, was forcibly taken from the hospital where he was being treated after he and two other candidates were beaten during clashes with government forces.
  • (19) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.
  • (20) Late on Friday afternoon, violent clashes broke out between Papua New Guinea police and detainees.