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Cash vs Assets - What's the difference?

cash | assets |

As a proper noun cash

is .

As a noun assets is

.

cash

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
  • After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash .
  • (informal) Money.
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  • (Canada) Cash register.
  • (archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) Sir W. (Temple)
  • This bank is properly a general cash , where every man lodges his money.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) Sir R. (Winwood)
  • £20,000 are known to be in her cash .
    Derived terms
    * cashback * cash box * cash cow * cash flow * cash on the barrelhead * cash point * cash register * cold cash * take the cash and let the credit go
    See also
    *

    Verb

    (es)
  • To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
  • (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
  • Derived terms
    * cash in * cash in on * cash out * cash up

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (cash)
  • Any of several low-denomination coins of India or China, especially the Chinese copper coin.
  • Etymology 3

    See cashier.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To disband.
  • (Garges)

    Anagrams

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    assets

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • English plurals
  • (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
  • His assets are much greater than his liabilities.
  • (legal) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
  • Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.