cash-out
Americannoun
-
Also cashout a direct cash payment or a cash profit or remainder.
The store owner lived on a cash-out of fifty dollars a day.
-
a payment of winnings or a cashing in of chips, as in a casino.
Usage
What does cash out mean? To cash out is to exchange something, such as casino chips or stocks, for money, as in Jorge had to cash out his retirement fund when he lost his job and couldn’t find another. Cash out is typically used in casinos, which use items such as chips or tokens to represent money you’ve won or paper slips that keep a tally of the money you’ve won. When you’re done gambling, you cash out by exchanging the items or paper slips for money. You can also cash out stocks, bonds, and similar investment products. Instead of exchanging chips or paper slips, you’re exchanging your share of ownership in the thing you purchased for the money your ownership represents. When referring to an exchange for money, you can also use cash in. To cash out also means to balance a cash register at the end of a work shift. When you cash out your register, you count all of the money in the register and all of the money spent with credit or debit cards to make sure the sum matches the cost of products sold. Example: Tanya always cashes out her register by adding the money on a piece of paper.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
So, because John McGinn was so willing to help Matty Cash out on that flank, Son Heung-min was forced inside where Villa had even more numbers.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2024
Cash out any paid time off or sick leave you may be entitled to.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2021
“People don’t understand. Cash out, put a couple million dollars in your pocket, go on with life, right?”
From Washington Times • Jun. 16, 2018
Cash out too late and you might lose a fortune.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2014
He knew that Cash, out by the woodpile, let the axe blade linger in the cut while he stared after him.
From Cabin Fever by Bower, B. M.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
