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💳 No cash used 🙅‍♂️ No money on hand
cashless

cashless

4.2
Not having any coins and bills available
  • adjective
  • /ˈkæʃləs/
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  • I don't carry anything of value anyway; no watch, cheap cell phone, and a worn, cashless wallet.

I've heard his name already, but they everybody thinks they're Wizards, but they're controlled by Grunch Gross, universal cashless.

Examples

  • Due to the pandemic, more people have adopted a cashless lifestyle, relying on their phones to pay for purchases.

  • People in the Tribulation will not be able to buy or sell without the "mark"... and with the chip, they can go cashless, and then one must have the chip to buy and sell.

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  • In a cashless society, everything is paid for using digital payment methods.

  • Many stores now offer cashless options to make transactions quicker and more convenient.

Synonyms

non-cash
vscashless
4.0

Not involving physical money, for example payments by card or digital transfer

refers to lacking physical money on hand rather than to transaction method

How Cashless

broke
  • Informal
237 1.8
cashless
4.2
cash in hand
3 3.4

Surface Forms

cashless positive

Morphology

cashless = cash (transparent) = cash + less

Standard adjectival formation 'cash' + '-less' meaning 'without cash', which directly matches the definitions given.

Etymology

The word cashless comes from cash ('money in coins or bills') and the ending -less ('without'), like homeless meaning 'without a home'. So if someone is cashless, they simply have 'no cash' on them until they get more.