6 sentences with 'cash'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cash and other words derived from it.
• « Constantinople enjoyed a cash economy, impregnable defensive fortifications and abundant food thanks to the availability of Anatolian grain and fish from the Aegean Sea. »
• « In turn, the Vikings brought a large amount of Byzantine and Abbasid currency north, introducing cash into the largely barter-based economies of northern and western Europe. »
• « Also, the relative stability allowed smaller kingdoms to mint their own coins, and within a century or so (c. 1000 - 1100) much of Europe became a cash economy rather than a barter economy. This gave peasants an additional incentive to farm as much as possible. »
• « While initial attempts at colonisation failed or struggled to survive (for example, almost all of the original settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, were dead by the time more arrived in 1610), the survivors discovered that they could grow at least one cash crop that would enrich them and tempt other Europeans to immigrate: tobacco. »
• « Rosalia Varela, 32, a waitress at the Jalisco taqueria, went to the cash register to collect change from a customer. »
• « The freelance writer, on the other hand, lives in a permanent state of uncertainty. He may cash four cheques in a week and none in a year. Only if he is backed by a good savings account can he avoid falling into emotional and financial chaos. You must restrict your consumption and save during the years of plenty, because you know that the years of hardship will follow. »