0 using or operating with credit and debit cards and electronic systems, not money in the form of coins or notes: --
a cashless society
1 used to describe a system in which people pay for things by using bank cards, moving money over the internet, etc. rather than using cash in the form of coins and notes: --
The shift toward an increasingly cashless society has changed our relationship with money.
A major benefit of the cashless system is the elimination of the work associated with counting and handling cash.
We are steadily going over to a more cashless society.
We are not against cashless pay, but we think, as do the banks, that it should not be forced upon people.
Employers should be required to negotiate with workers if they want to move to cashless pay.
It will permit cashless systems which could avoid many of our current problems.
Technology may be pushing us towards a cashless society, but there is a generation to which that will never apply.
The cashless society is almost upon us, with all that that implies.
I understand the point about a crime requiring a punishment but here we are dealing with an almost cashless economy.
Employers and banks realise that any move to cashless pay needs careful planning and sympathetic understanding of problems that inevitably arise.
