cashless

comparative more cashless · superlative most cashless

1. Operating without the need for cash, such as by accepting nondigital, noncash forms of payment (e.g., chit, cheques, money orders) or (in the 21st century, usually) using digital payment methods (e-payment).

   cashless restaurant

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   cashless payment system

   The benefits and dangers of the cashless society will become more apparent over the next decade . . .

   1998, Danny Kruger, Access Denied?: Preventing Information Exclusion

   It demanded taxes, which in a cashless society meant grain, cattle and, most tellingly, labor.

   2005, Jane R. Hogan, M. W. Daly, Images of Empire: Photographic Sources for the British in the Sudan

   The rise of cashless establishments is happening amid continuing hype over the supposed dawn of a “cashless future” and agitation by some very powerful interests that would love to see cash disappear. The credit card companies love it, naturally, and tech industry associations have also pushed for the concept.

   2019 August 12, Jay Stanley, “Say No to the “Cashless Future” — and to Cashless Stores”, in ACLU

   Synonyms: noncash

2. dateduncommonHaving no money.

   When calls are made on cashless penceless men, The case is wonderfully altered then!

   1858, William Bownas, Arundines Bostonienses, page 85

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   They were the same winged messengers that out-run cashless debtors, and cut short lovers' dreams.

   1853, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine

   Synonyms: moneyless, penniless