Definition of Cash in hand

1. Noun. Assets in the form of money.


Definition of Cash in hand

1. Adjective. Receiving wages or salary directly in the form of cash, often without deducting tax. ¹

2. Adverb. In a manner receiving direct payment by cash, often without paying tax. ¹

3. Noun. Direct payment by cash, as opposed to through a bank. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cash In Hand

cash boxes
cash card
cash cow
cash cows
cash crop
cash crops
cash desk
cash dispenser
cash dispensers
cash equivalent
cash flow
cash flows
cash game
cash games
cash in
cash in hand (current term)
cash in on
cash in one's chips
cash instrument
cash instruments
cash leakage
cash machine
cash machines
cash money
cash on delivery
cash out
cash position
cash price
cash register
cash registers

Literary usage of Cash in hand

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... but at not less than the appraised value thereof, and upon the following terms: one third cash in hand on the day of sale, one third in one year, ..."

2. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1877)
"I. To cash in hand . . . £i(1 3 I 8. ,, Mrs. Hannah Grant . . oIo Feb. IO. „ J. Kuskin (cheque) . . 50 oo May I. ,, Ditto ditto . . . 50 oo June 30. ..."

3. Audits by Arthur Edwin Cutforth (1908)
"Cash in Hand— This can be verified by actually counting the cash ; or, if the auditor does not attend on the date of the accounts, he can audit the Cash ..."

4. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"... to actual cash in hand, ' must at least be ' Rendered tangible for the pur- l>oie of division.' . . . The meaning of the word is the direct converse of ..."

5. The Ontario Reports: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the Queen's by Ontario High Court of Justice (1901)
"The reasons which he gives for taking that position are (1) that, as he says, he was so over- worked that he could not verify the cash in hand with the ..."

6. Principles of Accounting by John Raymond Wildman (1913)
"Separate accounts for each of these items will usually appear in the general ledger, although cash in hand and on deposits is frequently consolidated in the ..."

7. The Cooperative Movement in Jugoslavia, Rumania and North Italy During and by Diarmid Coffey (1922)
"... Shares 31778 Reserve 9840 Balance 5844 Credit Crowns cash in hand 31226 ... 5147 Shares in Union Interest on share capital cash in hand 6510 Rent, ..."

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