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cashless, a.|ˈkæʃlɪs|
[f. cash n.1 + -less.]
Without cash, penniless, impecunious.
1833Niles' Register 20 July XLIV. 347 They with rich land, and staple productions..are becoming poor and cashless. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. II. ix. iv. 432 Friedrich..being totally cashless. 1874Masson Chatterton i. ii. 28 Drawn up by Chatterton in a cashless moment.
▸ Not using cash as a medium, esp. as a means of payment; designating, relating to, or characterized by financial transactions which do not involve the use of cash, esp. the exchange of funds by cheque, debit card, or any of various electronic methods.
cashless society n. a (hypothesized) society in which financial transactions are wholly or principally conducted by electronic means, making cash unnecessary.
1937Polit. Sci. Q. 52 88 Coincident with the growing power of the Reichsbank, important changes took place in the field of credit which included..the development of the transfer or Giro system, referred to by German authors as the ‘cashless means of payment’. 1953Soviet Stud. 5 18 The organization of ‘cashless’ accounting. 1969R. Salerno & J. S. Tompkins Crime Confederation 366 The computer..makes possible the checkless, cashless society in which, a few years from now, most transfers of money..can be accomplished by electronic impulse. 1987T. Forester High-Tech Society (1989) viii. 237 Unfortunately, the tantalizing dream of smooth, cashless shopping has not been matched by real achievements, and there is no country in the world that can claim a major, successful EFT/POS system in operation. 1992Australian (Brisbane) 12 June 27/4 A cashless bank based on the oldest form of business—bartering—is helping small businesses to increase sales and move excess stock. 2000Times 21 Nov. 22/5 While the move towards a cashless society is generally seen as progress—..implicit in the acceptance of plastic cards is the acceptance of the culture of debt. |