Cash vs Property - 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.
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* (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.
Something that is owned.
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, chapter=4, title= A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
Real estate; the business of selling houses.
The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
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, title= (label) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
An object used in a dramatic production.
(label) Propriety; correctness.
(obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
(obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun cash
is .As a noun property is
something that is owned.As a verb property is
(obsolete) to invest with properties, or qualities.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
* ----property
English
Alternative forms
* propretieNoun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}
Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
- (Camden)
Synonyms
* (something owned) belongings, owndom, possession * (piece of real estate) land, parcel * (attribute or abstract quality of an object) attribute, feature, owndom * (object used in a dramatic production) prop * See also * See alsoDerived terms
* abandoned property * accidental property * bound property * chemical property * country property * essential property * hot property * intellectual property * lost property * man of property * mechanical property * metaproperty * mislaid property * personal property * physical property * private property * prop * propertied * property file * property ladder * property law * property line * property man * property master * property owner * property porn * property rights * property tax * propertyless * public property * qualified property * real propertyVerb
- (Shakespeare)
- They have here propertied me.