Cash vs Pay - What's the difference?
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Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
(informal) Money.
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, title= (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)
* (and other bibliographic details) Sir R. (Winwood)
To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
(poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
Any of several low-denomination coins of India or China, especially the Chinese copper coin.
To disband.
To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
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, title= (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
* (Bible), (Psalms) xxxvii. 21
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, title= To be profitable for.
To give (something else than money).
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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To be profitable or worth the effort.
To discharge an obligation or debt.
To suffer consequences.
Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
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Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
Pertaining to or requiring payment.
(nautical) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
In transitive terms the difference between cash and pay
is that cash is to exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills while pay is to give (something else than money).As a proper noun Cash
is {{surname}.As an adjective pay is
operable or accessible on deposit of coins.cash
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash .
The rise of smart beta, passage=Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries
- This bank is properly a general cash , where every man lodges his money.
- £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 goSee also
*Verb
(es)Derived terms
* cash in * cash in on * cash out * cash upEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(cash)Etymology 3
See cashier.Verb
(es)- (Garges)
Anagrams
* ----pay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about
- The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
T time, passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
- not paying me a welcome
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.