Cash vs Specie - What's the difference?
cash | specie | Synonyms |
Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
(informal) Money.
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(archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
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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.
Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie .
Money, especially in the form of coins made from precious metal, that has an intrinsic value; coinage.
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(proscribed)
Cash is a synonym of specie.
As a proper noun cash
is .As a noun specie is
type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie or specie can be (proscribed).cash
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash .
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- 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
* ----specie
English
Etymology 1
Originally in the phrase in specie; from (etyl) , ablative singular of species. Compare payment in kind.Noun
(-)- ‘It was not money or specie he thought himself hunting!’
- “Dick” Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, “Got to ‘scram,’ kid — write if you get work.”