Meaning

5 senses
  1. (US)To reconcile at the end of a shift; to compare receipts of items sold to records of credit card, check and cash placed into the drawer, verifying that correct change was given out by the clerk.

  2. (US)To retire; to exchange gambling chips for money when finished gambling.

  3. (broadly)To exchange possession of any commodity or idea for cash.

  4. (broadly)To explain what is entailed by an idea or proposition.

    Hume cashed out the concept of causation into such experiential terms as spatiotemporal contiguity, temporal succession, and constant conjunction.

  5. (informal, intransitive)To give up on something.

    If you can't even succeed with him, you might as well cash out.

More definitions
  • choose a simpler life style after questioning personal and career satisfaction goals

Examples

10 sentences
  1. The cash machine is out of order.

    Банкомат зламався. — aandrusiak

    ruБанкомат сломался. — odexed

  2. Tom took some cash out of his pocket.

  3. Tom pulled a big wad of cash out of his pocket.

    ruТом вытащил большую пачку денег из кармана. — odexed

  4. If you're smart, you'll cash out while you're ahead.

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · darinmex · A2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. I want to cash out.

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · Eccles17 · A2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Forms

cashes out, cashing out, cashed out, cashed out
Base formcash out · to cash out
3rd person singularcashes out
Present participlecashing out
Past simplecashed out
Past participlecashed out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycash out
he, she, itcashes out

Past simpleLesson

all personscashed out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cashed out
he, she, ithas cashed out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cash out

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

2 synonyms
reconcile at end of shift:cash incash up

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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