0 past simple and past participle of cash
1 to exchange a cheque, etc. for cash:
Would you cash a cheque for me?
Sorry, we can't cash cheques here.
The result was that cards often traded hands several times, appreciating in value each time, before finally being 'cashed in' or caught by the authorities.
This intelligibility is cashed out in terms of fostering narrative unity of our lives.
Cashed out in temporal terms like that, we can begin to appreciate anew the real difference the welfare state might make to people's lives.
But it is far from obvious how all this is to be cashed out.
Abstract terms are rather more nebulous, as they cannot be directly 'cashed in ' for any particular, determinate ideas.
They were motivated to perform well to gain points, displayed periodically on-screen, to be cashed in for a valued prize.
