| 词汇 | cash |
| 词源 | cash; hard cash. Cash is a back-formation from cashier, the keeper of any money box, or caisse as the French called it. The word came into English in about 1600. Hard cash means actual currency without any checks among it and got its name because it first meant only hard metal money. |
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