Cash

Cash refers to money in the physical form of currency, such as banknotes and coins.

In bookkeeping and finance, cash refers to current assets comprising currency or currency equivalents that can be accessed immediately or near-immediately (as in the case of money market accounts). Cash is seen either as a reserve for payments, in case of a structural or incidental negative cash flow or as a way to avoid a downturn on financial markets.

Etymology

The word is variously attributed. Some claim that the word "cash" comes from the modern French word caisse, which means (money) box, from the Provençal word caissa, from the Italian cassa, from the Latin capsa all meaning box. In the 18th century, the word passed to refer to the money instead of the actual box containing it. Another claim is that it was derived from Tamil word kāsu (Tamil: காசு) meaning a coin, by East India Company.

"Cash" used as a verb means "to convert to cash"; for example in the expression "to cash a cheque".

History

In Western Europe, after the Collapse of the Western Roman Empire, coins, silver jewelry and hacksilver (silver objects hacked into pieces) were for centuries the only form of money, until Venetian merchants started using silver bars for large transactions in the early Middle Ages. In a separate development, Venetian merchants started using paper bills, instructing their banker to make payments. Similar marked silver bars were in use in lands where the Venetian merchants had established representative offices. The Byzantine empire and several states in the Balkan area and Kievan Rus also used marked silver bars for large payments. As the world economy developed and silver supplies increased, in particular after the colonization of South America, coins became larger and a standard coin for international payment developed from the 15th century: the Spanish and Spanish colonial coin of 8 reales. Its counterpart in gold was the Venetian ducat.

Carry

Carry or carrying may refer to:

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Cash & Carry

Cash & Carry Smart Foodservice is a chain of American low-price warehouse grocery stores located in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Cash & Carry is geared toward supplying food service operators like restaurants, but it also serves individuals similarly to Costco (but without the membership fees). Cash & Carry runs 54 stores as of 2015. The company operates 11 stores in California, 3 stores in Idaho, 17 stores in Oregon, 22 stores in Washington and one in Nevada. The company is based in Portland, Oregon. Cash & Carry offers brand-name and private-label groceries, including meat, dairy and fresh produce, as well as tableware, paper products, janitorial supplies and catering supplies. They are open seven days a week. Cash & Carry operates as an independent division of Smart & Final, LLC.

Relationship to Smart & Final

The Cash & Carry Smart Foodservice chain is the foodservice brand and division of Smart & Final, LLC. Smart & Final operates 282 stores under several brands. The Smart & Final chain includes 198 stores (185 in the U.S. and 13 in Mexico). The Henry's Farmers Markets and Sun Farmers Markets chains include 35 stores in California and Texas.

Cash and carry

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Do You

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