cash out

present singular third person cashes out · participle present cashing out · participle past cashed out · past cashed out

1. USTo 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.

   Synonyms: cash in, cash up

2. USgamblingTo retire; to exchange gambling chips for money when finished gambling.
3. broadlyTo exchange possession of any commodity or idea for cash.

   The real benefits accrued not to the public whose streets were flooded with unregulated taxis or workers whose livelihoods evaporated, but to Uber’s early investors who were still able to cash out when the company went public.

   2022 July 11, Paris Marx, “The Uber Leak Exposes the Global War on Workers”, in Tribune

4. broadlyoften in analytic philosophyTo 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. informalintransitiveTo give up on something.

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