Cash ratio
noun
the ratio of cash on hand to total deposits that by law or custom commercial banks must maintain Also called liquidity ratio
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a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due. Historical Examples She should get away from her seat at that cash-register, and return to the open air. Cavanagh: Forest Ranger Hamlin Garland […]
- Cash-value
the nonforfeiture value of a life-insurance policy payable to the insured in cash upon its surrender. Historical Examples And this cash-value, it is needless to say, is verbatim et liberatim what our empiricist account pays in. The Meaning of Truth William James And this cash-value, it is needless to say, is verbatim et literatim what […]
- Cash-back
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- Cash-for-questions
adjective (Brit) of, involved in, or relating to a scandal in which some MPs were accused of accepting bribes to ask particular questions in Parliament
- Cash-strapped
adjective short of money; impoverished: cash-strapped local authorities Contemporary Examples But in an election-eve Siena poll, Paladino was neck and neck with the cash-strapped Lazio, a bad sign for the NY GOP. The Tea Party’s Northern Insurgency John Avlon September 12, 2010 Itay Hod on the stunningly lucrative spectacle that had cash-strapped mayors going to […]