to cash up

1 5.2

To count and write down all the money taken at the end of a workday

phrasal verb

: hacer el cierre de caja

After counting the bills and coins, he finished cashing up for the day.

Examples

I cashed up and we walked over to my Spring Street rent.

Fiction book (1994)
At the end of the shift, I need to cash up to ensure all the sales are recorded.
I'd already cashed up, so they didn't get much.

The Utah Cabin Murders (2019)
Now, I couldn't get you financing, So you'll have to pay cash up front.

Play the Game (2009)
Before closing the store, the manager asked her to cash up the register.

How Thorough

to reconcile

68 5.4

to cash up

1 5.2

Surface Forms

cash up infinitive

cashed up past

cashed up past participle

cashing up present participle

cashes up third person singular

Morphology

cash + up

The element 'cash' clearly refers to money and the particle 'up' can signal completion or totalizing (as in 'count up' or 'add up'), so a learner who knows both words can plausibly infer that 'cash up' means to total/collect the money. However, the specific routine/business sense of counting and recording takings at the end of a day is somewhat conventional and the particle 'up' is multifunctional, so the exact procedural/recording nuance may not be fully predictable without exposure.

Etymology

Cash up comes from the picture of closing time in a shop: you gather the day's cash from the till and 'add it up' to see how much there is. So, cash up means 'to count and record all the money received' at the end of the day.