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Cash vs Property - What's the difference?

cash | property |

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)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The rise of smart beta , passage=Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries
  • (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

    * ----

    property

    English

    Alternative forms

    * propretie

    Noun

  • Something that is owned.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= 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.}}
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= 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.}}
  • An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (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.
  • (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 also

    Derived 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 property

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
  • * Shakespeare
  • They have here propertied me.

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