Search Chambers
Consult Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, The Chambers Thesaurus (1996) or Chambers Biographical Dictionary (1997 edition with amendments). Enter your search and choose your title from the drop-down menu.
cash noun 1 coins or paper money, as distinct from cheques, credit cards, etc. 2 colloq money in any form. verb (cashes, cashed, cashing) to obtain or give cash in return for (a cheque, traveller's cheque, postal order, etc). cash down colloq with payment immediately on purchase. cash on delivery (abbreviation c.o.d.) with payment for goods immediately on delivery.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c: from French casse box, from Latin capsa coffer.
cash something in to exchange (tokens, vouchers, etc) for money. cash in on something colloq to make money, or profit in some other way, by exploiting a situation, etc. cash up Brit colloq said of a shopkeeper, etc: to count up the money taken, usually at the end of a day. |
-
The Chambers Dictionary (13th edition)
“Chambers is the one I keep at my right hand”- Philip Pullman.
The unrivalled dictionary for word lovers, now in its 13th edition.
-
The Chambers Thesaurus
The Chambers Thesaurus (4th Edition) is a veritable treasure-trove, including the greatest selection of alternative words and phrases available in an A to Z format. -
Chambers Biographical Dictionary
“Simply all you need to know about anyone” – Fay Weldon.
Thoroughly revised and updated for its 9th edition.
Consult Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, The Chambers Thesaurus (1996) or Chambers Biographical Dictionary (1997 edition with amendments). Enter your search and choose your title from the drop-down menu.
Search Tip
A wildcard is a special character you can use to replace one or more characters in a word. There are two types of wildcard. The first is a question mark ?, which matches a single character. The second is an asterisk *, which matches zero or more characters. The two kinds of wildcard can be mixed in a single search.
View More Search Tips