cashes

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of cash.

   The teller cashes checks for customers throughout the day.

   She cashes her tax refund check the moment it arrives.

   Note

   The present-tense verb is spelled the same as the noun plural, so the sentence tells you which one you have. The everyday sense is transitive and needs an object, as in "a teller cashes checks." In slang it can stand alone: a competitor who cashes has won a payout from a tournament. The -es ending follows the sibilant at the end of cash and adds an extra syllable.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of cash.

   The traveler exchanged his silver for a heavy string of cashes.

   A bowl of soup cost only a few cashes in those days.

   Note

   Most uses of cash take no plural at all. Money in hand, liquid assets and plain informal money are usually uncountable. The plural belongs to the countable senses: in Canada, the registers or checkout counters of a shop; among competitors, separate cash-prize wins; and, archaically, the money boxes where funds were kept. When cashes appears, something countable is being counted.

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