(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".
Sash
Definition:
(n.) A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc.
(v. t.) To adorn with a sash or scarf.
(n.) The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.
(n.) In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.
(v. t.) To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.
Example Sentences:
(1) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
(2) In March 1990, in a ceremony in the new Congress building built by Pinochet in his home town of Valparaiso - 80 miles from the capital, Santiago, and intended to remain well out of mind of the real centres of power - a sombre Pinochet handed the presidential sash over to Aylwin.
(3) The extravasation of contrast medium was seen in a sash like fashion through arterial and venous phase.
(4) The fast-talking 61-year-old shakes hands with one wearing a tiara and sash reading “Miss Columbus”, from a beauty pageant to celebrate its namesake’s arrival in North America.
(5) The painting depicts him in crisp white military tunic with cap, spectacles and green sash, his hands gripping a rail as if surveying an adoring public.
(6) A sash-like cord used to strangle Grove was still knotted around his neck.
(7) Thinking they meant Sash!, a European dance act, he said no and was promptly beaten up.
(8) So the Zeiss girls turned up: blondes with big makeup and swimsuits with sashes saying Zeiss.
(9) The fight to make today better must become your central task.” *** A presidential sash with the pale blue and white stripes of Uruguay sits in a glass-topped box in Julio María Sanguinetti’s book-lined, sombre study in a house on a quiet street near Punta Carretas.
(10) She was just standing by the big sash window in her bedroom when she spotted Mrs Thatcher "toddling" around the hospital gardens unguarded.
(11) Zheng and her friends have natty red sashes and a large banner that says: "Honoured to take part in the election for the people's congress".
(12) Cervical spine injuries associated with three-point fixation lap-sash seat belts result from impact against the sash.
(13) Worn-out sliding sash windows can be replaced with double-glazed, draughtproofed ones.
(14) Sash (WshWsh) epidermis can support melanocyte differentiation and pigment production but lacks functional melanocytes.
(15) Then, as a final insult, he added a personal observation: that Marino, who wore a customary mayoral sash to his meeting with the pope in Philadelphia, “really looked like a fool”.
(16) The garish sashes were introduced to distinguish the non-uniformed militias from an enemy who favour the same get-up of traditional Afghan garb and AK-47 slung over the shoulder.
(17) The president and Mrs Reagan stood on a special platform on the South Lawn to greet Jackson, who wore a military jacket with sequins, plus floppy gold epaulettes and a gold sash, a single white glove with rhinestones, large dark glasses and full stage make-up.
(18) If success is measured by the quality of one's view, then Ekow Eshun has done very well: step out of the high sash window in his room at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and on to the roof, and a tourist's idea of London unfolds as far as the eye can see – Big Ben, parliament, the London Eye; the Mall, St James's Park.
(19) But though the window is heavy, and sometimes shudders in its frame, the sash slides smoothly upwards.
(20) But in July 2011, evidence of various unauthorised third-party deductions from beneficiaries’ bank accounts started to emerge, says Thandiwe Zulu, provincial director of Black Sash , a human rights organisation.