I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cash box (= for keeping a supply of money in, for example in a shop )
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Thieves stole £100 from a cash box at the school.
a cash card ( also an ATM card especially AmE ) (= one you use to get cash from a machine )
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You should report stolen cash cards immediately.
a cash crisis (= a lack of money )
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In April the company sold another 30% of its stock to ease its cash crisis.
a cash crop (= grown to be sold rather than used )
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Cotton is grown as a cash crop in the savannah.
a cash payment (= a payment in cash )
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He provided pills to athletes in return for cash payments.
a cash prize
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There's a $5,000 cash prize for the winner.
a cash/ATM machine (= for giving you money from your bank account )
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I need to stop at a cash machine.
be short of money/cash/funds
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Our libraries are short of funds.
cash a cheque (= exchange a cheque for the amount of money it is worth )
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The company had cashed the cheque but not sent the goods.
cash advance
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It seems so easy to get a $100 cash advance every few days at a local ATM machine.
cash and carry
cash bar
cash box
cash card
cash cow
cash crop
cash desk
cash discount
cash dispenser
cash flow problems
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The builder is unable to pay due to cash flow problems .
cash flow
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We expect a rise in both our production and our cash flow.
cash incentives
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The scheme gives farmers cash incentives to manage the countryside for wildlife.
cash machine
cash payouts
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Some of the victims have been offered massive cash payouts .
cash register
cash/budget/financial etc crunch
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Cost cutting had enabled the organization to survive a previous cash crunch.
electronic cash
hard cash
hard-earned money/cash etc
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Don’t be too quick to part with your hard-earned cash.
pay (in) cash
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You have to pay in cash for the tickets.
petty cash
spot cash
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They won’t take credit; they want spot cash .
surplus cash/funds/revenues
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Surplus cash can be invested.
the monetary/cash value (= the value of something in money )
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They made an attempt to assess the cash value of the contract.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electronic
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The authorities reacted by ruling that tamper-proof electronic cash registers must be used.
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So she places her smart card containing electronic cash provided as part of a bank service into the smart-card reader.
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Mostly, they hand over a credit-card number, but some transactions already use electronic cash .
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Of course, electronic cash does not have to be held on a Card.
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This contains an invisible watermark ... detectable only to electronic tills and cash dispensers.The company says it should be impossible to copy.
extra
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District councillors are under no illusion that the extra cash they are providing is enough to solve the problem entirely.
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Some of the extra cash was needed to remove asbestos from the building.
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Your bright idea could even earn you some extra cash .
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When I had a little extra cash I decided I would buy new speakers.
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Mr Patten hinted that extra cash for public sector housebuilding will go where shortages are greatest.
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The extra cash would fund research related to the new generation of satellites planned for later in the 1980s.
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Unfortunately most of the extra cash grabbed was swallowed up by bad debts.
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Trinity say that no extra cash is available and that Jackson must honour his existing contract.
future
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Economic value - as this is based on future cash flows from the asset the economic value is likely to be reduced.
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In other words, it is the rate that equates future net cash flows to the initial investment outlay.
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Relevant costs and revenues are defined as future cash flows that will be changed by the decision under review.
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The basic answer lies in the guesses about future cash flow.
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It is important when answering questions on relevant costing to identify all future cash flows affected by a particular decision.
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A valuer who knows what he is doing will value on the basis of one key criterion: available future cash flow.
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Wednesday brings surprise news affecting future cash decisions.
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Whether a company acquires an asset through loan or leasing, it is committed to making future cash payments.
hard
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Intellectuals were called on to transform their knowledge into hard cash .
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Luckily, the chatter of cold hard cash later persuaded the state to sell the name to the highest bidder.
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John's role was to get together as much hard cash as possible.
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Two Model Village awards will not suffice our merchants for cold, hard cash .
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Chamois and crystal hunters began to convert their mountain skills into hard cash by becoming mountain guides for the more adventurous tourists.
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The social types turned out en masse to cheer on their friends and to put a little hard cash on the line.
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For the City has not been prepared to back his business with hard cash .
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There was very little hard cash .
large
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A handful are sitting on large cash surpluses.
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Disney, which has a large cash hoard, also might be interested, sources said.
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You see, often I carry large sums of cash and need protection.
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Medal winners will receive large cash prizes from the government and be treated like royalty.
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In order to avoid large cash payments to the public on a particular date, the Bank purchases government securities before they mature.
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The homesteader needed a small filing fee, and a much larger amount of cash to survive until the farm got going.
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He said the recession could even encourage MBOs as large companies raise cash by disposing of subsidiary organisations.
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As airlines grew, their large cash flows were used to justify huge borrowings for takeovers and expansion.
net
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In other words, it is the rate that equates future net cash flows to the initial investment outlay.
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Total inflows minus total outflows results in the predicted net cash gain or loss during the month.
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The Wetherby, Yorkshire company now has £600,000 net cash .
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National Medical generated $ 193 million in net cash from operations in 1994.
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It was easily affordable: the rights issue last year strengthened the finances and left year end net cash of £77m.
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After starting last year with net debt of £6.3m, it now has net cash of almost £4m.
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The problem with a high-tech start-up is that you have a net cash outflow.
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Despite the costs of launching Carlton Television, the company still has a strong balance sheet, with net cash of £50.3m.
petty
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We now have to buy it from our petty cash .
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This is not a buck here or a buck there in the petty cash till.
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Completion and interpretation of petty cash transactions. 3 Materials and Stationery Use and control; methods of economy.
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They are entered in the petty cash book.
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These items are usually paid for out of the petty cash .
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If you work in retailing, you may be asked to look after the petty cash .
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Borrowing money from colleagues at work, petty cash , or from neighbours is a fast way of making yourself unpopular.
ready
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Both have so far proved effective, which shows that ready cash is more versatile than credit cards and cheque books.
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Phagu clipped the goats and wound the hair into skeins which he would sell for ready cash in town.
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I pass up a roadside rest area, a happy hunting ground for new cars and ready cash .
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There is not so much ready cash in my treasury.
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With ready cash in your bank account you can spend the money as you want.
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He made over his share in Leopold's estate to Nannerl in return for 1,000 gulden of ready cash , which he desperately needed.
short
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So whether you're visiting Perth or Penzance, you need never go short of cash .
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Before Diller came in, they were short on cash and needed to get a product out fast.
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In August 1910 the Boro were short of cash .
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If your company is short on cash , it becomes very tempting not to remit these taxes.
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They can be sold quickly on the Stock Exchange if banks are short of cash .
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They're not short of cash .
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Alternatively, if those banks subject to statutory cash requirements were short of cash, they could attract cash away from the uncontrolled institutions.
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Yet, because of its magpie genesis, the new Look was vulnerable to the sharp-eyed but short of cash .
spare
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In fact all the games mentioned were inexpensive, they had to be, few people had spare cash for inessentials.
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We had three children in quick succession, and no spare cash .
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Any spare cash he preferred to donate to more worthy causes.
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I know people don't have any spare cash at the moment so thought this would be a good alternative.
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If I ask for extra to buy baby clothes, he says he doesn't have the spare cash .
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Past boy friends who could use a bit of spare cash .
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So, whenever you have some spare cash to hand, pay it into Premier Savings and watch it grow.
surplus
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Financing decisions Fixed asset investment can be funded from several sources: equity, surplus cash , loans or leasing.
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It would suit them better to use their surplus cash to aid starving children in other countries.
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Gradually coffee came to replace maize as the main agricultural produce of the community and foodstuffs were bought with surplus cash .
■ NOUN
alternative
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No cash alternative to the prize will be offered. 10.
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Granada offered an increased cash alternative of 362p.
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The draw to this raffle, which includes cash alternatives , is due to take place at the Dairy Event in September.
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We regret that if, for any reason, the winners can not accept their prizes there can be no cash alternative .
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No cash alternatives will be given. 5 Only one entry per person.
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No cash alternative is available. 6.
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There is no cash alternative to the prizes. 2.
box
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Possibly somewhere between 1901 and the present, Bobsworth had been caught with his hand in the cash box .
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They were arrested three weeks later in Liverpool when they were again seen to remove the cash box from a kiosk.
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Clinic raided: Burglars stole about £100 from a cash box at the clinic in Zetland Street, Northallerton.
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Responsibility for the photocopier cash box . 9.
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Jewellery has always been the Arabian woman's cash box .
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The imprest would also be £3.77, so that the petty cash box contains £20 for the next day.
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Phone cash goes Thieves broke into a cash box in a telephone kiosk at Braintree railway station and stole about £300.
card
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Imagine that a child has a cash card .
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The account offers a cash card and 1 per cent bonus for the first six months.
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Some cash cards have special links with international networks and make no charge for obtaining cash.
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Hence the helpful and revealing insights of the staff into his cash card habits.
crop
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Potatoes are the only cash crop though even some of these are used for fodder.
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Wine formed the most important cash crop , while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
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Poppies are a major cash crop .
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Thus it is both a cash crop and a fodder crop.
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Why don't producer nations simply switch crops and either become more self-sufficient in food, or produce a different cash crop?
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Specific cash crops were profitable only in certain districts.
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Unemployment soared, and many small producers of cash crops went bankrupt.
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Coffee was introduced into the central highlands in the 1840s, and quickly became the most important cash crop .
dispenser
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Been to the cash dispenser , got a statement, then withdrawn everything except four pounds ninety-five to keep the account open.
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She gave a similar answer when he asked her to open the automatic cash dispenser .
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Be very careful when you withdraw money from street cash dispensers .
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And at Barclays cash dispensers you can check your balance and order a statement.
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Their victims include a woman who is withdrawing money from a cash dispenser , and a gunsmith.
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It would cost around four million pounds to convert every cash dispenser in the country to being voice activated.
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Many of the building societies have also linked together so that their cash dispenser machines are networked.
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Jon Newsome has big trouble with his cash dispenser card - he regularly puts it in the wrong way round.
flow
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Shaftesbury Homes' report was praised for a good treasurer's report, accounts and cash flow statement.
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To improve cash flow , Kmart eliminated its dividend, cut expenses and boosted earnings.
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What effect would not giving credit have on your sales, your cash flow and your profits? 4.
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In terms of cash flow during the childrearing years, many families and most single parents really are poor.
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For the bold punter, a bid above 100p is unlikely without some signs of positive management action to stabilise cash flow .
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But Duran's failure to control his cash flow had him ducking under the ropes again 18 months later.
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This delayed cash flow will alter the net present value of an arbitrage transaction which involves buying shares.
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Lack of stock control Goods which can not be quickly used or sold but put strains on cash flow .
flows
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In other words, it is the rate that equates future net cash flows to the initial investment outlay.
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A little care is needed to calculate the cash flows for column 5.
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It is important when answering questions on relevant costing to identify all future cash flows affected by a particular decision.
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One man's new tricks to manage cash flows and control risk are another's source of financial enslavement and greater risk-taking.
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It recognises that money has a time value by discounting future cash flows at an appropriate discount rate.
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The money yield requires forecasts of all future cash flows from the bond.
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The result may then be used to discount the unadjusted cash flows .
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This is mistaken because the charge to revenue accounts does not reflect cash flows , only loan redemptions.
injection
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Manchester-based Eyeline faces closure unless it gets an urgent 12,000 cash injection .
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The club needs an immediate cash injection of £8,000.
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Donations are the key, although Crisis makes a cash injection of around £50,000.
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Thirteen landowners from Kesgrave are planning High Court action against the authority after giving a cash injection of £1.9 million.
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West Berlin was always a social security case, getting massive cash injections from Bonn.
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Mr Gleeson said it would be unfair to suggest the cash injection had something to do with the forthcoming General Election.
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It also announced that it would take no new orders as it hunts around for a cash injection to keep it solvent.
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The government can also offset the £ 100 cash injection by future taxation or borrowing and thus prevent deposit creation.
limit
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The discipline of cash limits was repeatedly disregarded, with political factors often intervening to soften the government's monetarist convictions.
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In general these cash limits were tighter than the losses industries had previously been making.
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In other words, cash limits were not expected to be adjusted during the subsequent year to take account of inflation.
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Central government generally has cash limits imposed on clearly defined blocks of expenditure.
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A cash limit is also applied to nationalized industries to restrict their ability to borrow from sources other than the government.
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We will reform the Social Fund, removing its cash limit and converting most loans into grants.
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From 1982 the two separate sets of targets used by the Labour government - volume and cash limit - were abolished.
machine
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The weekly-paid Greater Glasgow Health Board employees first discovered the bank's mistake when they tried to withdraw money from cash machines .
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Then whenever you want to make your payment, just key in the amount at any Birmingham Midshires cash machine .
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Then, one of them went to a cash machine to try to get money from her account.
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Even the bank's cash machine may get a face, or many, depending on the customer.
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Only £700m was withdrawn from cash machines in 1979 - it is now about £50 billion a year.
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Half way through the next working day, Rainbow pauses at a cash machine .
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Exchanges done through cash machines which can not issue receipts are exempt from this provision.
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There were no cheque accounts, no building society cash machines and the 90-day account and Tessas were still some years off.
payment
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These range from the handling of simple, yet administratively inconvenient, cash payments to sophisticated electronic payment schemes.
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The rules cover not only cash payments but also the settlement of household bills.
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In a very real sense, payment of dividends represents a choice between future capital gains and current cash payments.
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Some types of life assurance provide a cash payment on a director's retirement to buyout his or her shareholding.
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It includes all cash payments by the government, and all cash receipts.
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The matter was soon settled by a cash payment .
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They received an average cash payment of £12,468.
register
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The authorities reacted by ruling that tamper-proof electronic cash registers must be used.
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By the time I got my chance at the cash register , my white friends had been promoted to management.
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So methods have been developed to dissuade you from wandering off to somebody else's cash register .
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Exasperated customers were elbowing through the aisles in search of the cash registers .
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National chromed cash register , £220.
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If anything, he said, what they heard was that cash register .
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An attractive girl with a cheerful smile and laughing eyes was sitting at the cash register by the doorway.
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And do you really need three adding machines and two cash registers ?
■ VERB
carry
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Sadly, she never carries cash , so any hope of seeing her choose something unusually revolting for daughter-in-law Fergie soon faded.
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When police arrested Nestor Padron on suspicion of skimming meter receipts, he was carrying $ 850 in cash , Maher said.
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You see, often I carry large sums of cash and need protection.
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To avoid loss, carry the cash in a hidden neck or waist pouch.
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Senior officers say more and more criminals are prepared to carry firearms in cash raids.
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The main perceived benefit was the lack of need to carry cash or cheques.
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Funny how the rich don't carry cash .
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The Wolf prize also carries cash award of £60,000.
hand
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Steven White, 21, terrified staff at five banks into handing over cash , Southwark Crown Court heard.
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Just hand him the cash and he will make his own choices.
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A leading councillor is concerned about the way the Government is handing out community care cash .
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If they guessed on which side it fell, he handed over £100 cash .
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The 69-year-old man, from Elsdon Street, handed over the cash on odd occasions over the past year.
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In each of the robberies the raider handed over notes demanding cash and claiming he had a gun.
keep
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We have also noted that all debits and credits are not maintained separately because authorities tend to keep only one cash book.
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The open top rested on the floor, a good place to keep cash , I thought.
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She kept her cash in a shoebox under the bed.
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But maybe you should keep all the cash for yourself.
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Some folk may be tempted to stay on the sidelines and keep cash in the bank or building society.
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Still, demand for most junk bonds is still strong, because investors keep putting cash into high yield funds.
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Like many old people he ignored advice not to keep cash in his home.
need
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But to buy some more you need more cash .
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They say their business makes sense for winners who need immediate cash to pay off debts, start up businesses or invest.
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All banks need to maintain a cash ratio large enough to meet the cash requirements of their depositors.
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This creates room for new borrowing under the debt limit and allows the Treasury to sell fresh securities and raise needed cash .
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Voice over Maybe not baggage, but you will need a lot of cash .
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The second liquidity need is the same liquidity need that individuals have-firms need to maintain some cash balances to meet unexpected emergencies.
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Corporate diversification may often be due to a sense of needing to use up cash surpluses, rather than risk-spreading.
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But I needed cash quickly to set up in that line of business.
offer
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They can not compete with dealers who offer a warranty, cash discount, credit, part-ex and back-up etc.
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Homeless children scrounge for spare change, and newspapers carry ads from people offering their kidneys for cash .
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Make employers offer workers a cash alternative to free parking.
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Rather than offer the global working class cash for labour, it offers cash for food, water and air.
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Nearly all large commercial banks now offer highly sophisticated cash management systems for their commercial accounts.
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The deal enables it to offer creditors a 25% cash dividend to keep the company in business.
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He probably also knew that Banister had offered to channel cash from the New Orleans rackets to maintain the team of shooters.
pay
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And he sometimes paid them in cash , to speed things up.
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Workers were paid in cash , and no receipts were required.
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You can pay by cash or by cheque.
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It also shows why most aggressive, self-confident executives would rather be paid in stock than cash .
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If you pay by cash you will normally obtain a receipt as proof of payment.
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Manufacturers, through brokers, pay incentives, either cash or products, to stock particular foods or to promote them.
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Embarrassed, she paid by cash and wrestled with her conscience all the way home.
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That will be paid off by using cash flow, or replacing it with medium or long-term bonds.
provide
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Life assurance can provide the cash you need - at the right time.
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Some types of life assurance provide a cash payment on a director's retirement to buyout his or her shareholding.
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The legislation would also provide cash benefits to states that reduce births by unmarried women.
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For clubs in decent pitches though, offices or leisure complexes on part of their land can also provide cash .
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Guy Banister saw to it that exile leaders knew who was providing cash for arms and ammunition.
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And for no better reason than this Dickensian Government will not provide the cash .
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This would counter rural-urban migration as well as improve living standards and provide a cash income.
raise
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Their traditional ways of raising cash are too expensive: big firms can save millions by borrowing in New York or London.
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By eliminating this technique to raise cash without realizing a capital gain, the Treasury proposes to force investors to pay up.
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No charity can raise that sort of cash single-handed.
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There also is talk that the private company might go public, selling stock to raise more cash for growth.
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Foremost among the fun activities which raised the cash were sponsored stay-awakes and lock-ins by the Year 11 and Year 7 youngsters.
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Once you become an entrepreneur, it will be much harder to raise this kind of cash .
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The youngsters took part in an arduous sponsored swim to raise the cash .
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The Contrafund, for example, raised its cash and bond weighting to 15. 4 percent from 9. 2 percent.
receive
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She also received a cash lump sum from her Personal Accident Policy.
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Medal winners will receive large cash prizes from the government and be treated like royalty.
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They received an average cash payment of £12,468.
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The institutions, in return, receive cash collateral from the brokers.
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She had received £70 in cash , repaid £35, and still owed £101 15s.
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They must be duly authorised and signed by the person receiving the cash .
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Despite their wealth, each receives a hefty cash handout from the Civil List.
spend
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The second reason is the fact that most people have a limited budget and are already spending all their cash on games.
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Ownership has to make a commitment to spend that cash .
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So he spent the cash on his home and family.
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Why is it so easy to spend your cash when it can take so long to earn?
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There's no denying it, if you don't spend a lot of cash , you go down.
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All ludicrous examples of local councils wantonly spending excess cash are gratefully received.
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But as Ken Goodwin reports, nothing much has changed when it comes to how children choose to spend their cash .
strap
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The slump leaves the Government strapped for cash forcing National Savings to compete aggressively for money.
use
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The original Norfolk rotation was used to grow cash crops on strong land, yet never were two successive cash crops taken.
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Banks are generating record profits and using excess cash to buy out competitors and repurchase their own shares.
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The Tory party used cash and back channels and foreign donations to influence elections and change laws.
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Futures are highly liquid and can be used to raise cash quickly.
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It would suit them better to use their surplus cash to aid starving children in other countries.
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I intend to use the cash to pick up some refreshments for the men.
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Mostly, they hand over a credit-card number, but some transactions already use electronic cash .
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Xerox is expected to use the cash to pay down debt from the insurance unit.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be pressed for time/cash etc
be rolling in money/dough/cash/it
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Mel Levine is rolling in dough.
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After all, this man was a tycoon as well as a doctor; he must be rolling in money.
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Because the people who are rolling in it certainly are.
cold (hard) cash
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After a year, the igloo-shaped stadium has cost the citizens $ 20 million in very cold cash.
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Luckily, the chatter of cold hard cash later persuaded the state to sell the name to the highest bidder.
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No cold cash in the Nugent icebox, however, so I moved on.
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The other driving force is cold cash and order books.
ready money/cash
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He was only willing to sell it for ready cash.
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Any peasant short of ready money now had to resort to a usurer.
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Both have so far proved effective, which shows that ready cash is more versatile than credit cards and cheque books.
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I pass up a roadside rest area, a happy hunting ground for new cars and ready cash.
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Less need for travelers' checks at many destinations because of the growing availability of automated teller machines worldwide dispensing ready cash.
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Phagu clipped the goats and wound the hair into skeins which he would sell for ready cash in town.
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There is not so much ready cash in my treasury.
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With ready cash in your bank account you can spend the money as you want.
strapped (for cash)
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Could you lend me $10? I'm a little strapped for cash.
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If only all those years ago she had not been so strapped by convention.
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If she strapped them down to make herself look boyish they just stuck out a foot farther down, and ached.
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If they are afraid of rats, an iron cage of rats strapped over the chest or face is used.
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Still strapped in the chair in the corner.
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The cameras beamed live views of shuttle crew members as they were strapped by colleagues into the cramped cockpit.
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The.303 and the shotgun were in a waterproof bag strapped to the side of the pack.
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This was deep reading at full tilt, a sprint with lead survival gear strapped to your back.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Are you paying cash for these items?
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By age 15, Sean was stealing cash from his mother to buy drugs.
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Do you have a couple of dollars in cash ?
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I'll write you a cheque, and you can pay me back in cash later.
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I don't have much cash at the moment. Could I pay you next week?
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I heard she paid cash for her house back in the sixties.
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She earns extra cash by working as a waitress.
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The Health Authority says that it simply has no extra cash from its £136 million budget.
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Thieves stole a large amount of cash , and jewellery worth £50,000.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Debt would be sold for cash at a discount or converted into 17- to 25-year bonds.
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Discreet chorales endorse the beadle, who gathers cash on a wooden plate.
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Horsham has the right to deliver either the shares or their cash equivalent.
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If she didn't come I'd make arrangements for her to have set amounts of cash from time to time.
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John's role was to get together as much hard cash as possible.
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Once you become an entrepreneur, it will be much harder to raise this kind of cash .
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Swensson saved up and bought a new car -- a 1925 Ford -- for $ 485 cash .
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The state had to borrow $ 7 billion last July to keep from running out of cash .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
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And clubs can't help cashing in - by constantly changing the colour and style of their football strips.
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Shuchuk took a beautiful set-up pass from Kevin Todd in front of the net and cashed in at 17: 39.
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People were seen queuing overnight outside travel agents to be able to cash in on a £20 holiday for four!
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Marketing expert Mark Roesler testified Thursday that Simpson could cash in on his name.
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He was simply cashing in before Bill Clinton takes office.
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The Ottawa-based maker of computerized communications equipment cashed in on optimistic prospects for the Internet, the global computer network.
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Worst still, she was planning to cash in on Ivor's insurance policies.
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Some of the publishers cashing in on the lucrative confession craze profess to being disturbed by it.
out
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Excel always treats negative money as cash out and positive money as cash in.
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One possibility is simple: New money coming in would pay for the shares of those cashing out .
■ NOUN
check
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The fact that he would never be able to cash the check did not trouble him.
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The Casas de Cambio pockets a 1 percent spiff from cashing pay checks after hours.
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People would open a checking account, so they could cash a check at the market.
cheque
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At Barclays Bank he paid in the cheque from James Salperton and cashed a cheque of his own.
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The money will come, I will deposit it, Fakhru will cash his cheque .
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A: I need to cash a cheque .
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Lloyds Bank cashed a Gieves cheque for £27,000, the crew were paid and a crisis averted.
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When he cashes the cheque , he has stolen the amount stated on the face of the cheque.
chip
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His attitude-as well as those of other old partners-toward the firm changed once he had cashed in his chips .
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Maybe they should cash in chips now.
million
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The Company's financial position at March 31 includes $ 834.9 million of cash , cash equivalents and securities available for sale.
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Metropolitan Life owns about 96 % of the portfolio, and will receive $ 323 million in cash for its interest.
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That means First Interstate managers could reap about $ 300 million in pretax profits cashing in their options.
option
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This wealth will continue to fluctuate with the share price until he decides to cash in the options .
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That means First Interstate managers could reap about $ 300 million in pretax profits cashing in their options .
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give
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He also criticised with profits policy charges and the poor returns given to individuals who cash in their policies early.
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So give the kids cash for a pizza delivery, and let the grown-ups enjoy a relaxing meal in the shade.
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A man armed with a pocketknife ordered a male pedestrian to give him cash .
hope
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Fidelity Investments is hoping to cash in on some of this traffic by offering three new unit investment trusts.
pay
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No interest paid if cashed in within first year.
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A number of banks and building societies are paying generous rates to cash Isa customers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cold (hard) cash
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After a year, the igloo-shaped stadium has cost the citizens $ 20 million in very cold cash.
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Luckily, the chatter of cold hard cash later persuaded the state to sell the name to the highest bidder.
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No cold cash in the Nugent icebox, however, so I moved on.
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The other driving force is cold cash and order books.
ready money/cash
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He was only willing to sell it for ready cash.
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Any peasant short of ready money now had to resort to a usurer.
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Both have so far proved effective, which shows that ready cash is more versatile than credit cards and cheque books.
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I pass up a roadside rest area, a happy hunting ground for new cars and ready cash.
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Less need for travelers' checks at many destinations because of the growing availability of automated teller machines worldwide dispensing ready cash.
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Phagu clipped the goats and wound the hair into skeins which he would sell for ready cash in town.
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There is not so much ready cash in my treasury.
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With ready cash in your bank account you can spend the money as you want.
strapped (for cash)
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Could you lend me $10? I'm a little strapped for cash.
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If only all those years ago she had not been so strapped by convention.
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If she strapped them down to make herself look boyish they just stuck out a foot farther down, and ached.
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If they are afraid of rats, an iron cage of rats strapped over the chest or face is used.
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Still strapped in the chair in the corner.
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The cameras beamed live views of shuttle crew members as they were strapped by colleagues into the cramped cockpit.
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The.303 and the shotgun were in a waterproof bag strapped to the side of the pack.
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This was deep reading at full tilt, a sprint with lead survival gear strapped to your back.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And all the departing officers would be allowed to immediately cash in any of their unvested options and restricted stock.
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No interest paid if cashed in within first year.
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Then she sees Trotter's purse lying open with the money she has cashed from the county welfare.