Meaning & use
cash handling
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Meanings
noununcountablebusiness
The activity or job of receiving, counting, storing, and giving out money in a business.
Grammar: Uncountable: no plural and no 'a/an'. Use 'the cash handling' when referring to a specific process.
Patterns
- cash handling procedures
- cash handling training
- responsible for cash handling
All staff receive training in cash handling before they work on the till.
The manager reviewed the store's cash handling to reduce mistakes.
Poor cash handling can lead to losses and security problems.
noununcountablebusiness
The way a person or machine deals with physical money, especially in terms of accuracy and safety.
Grammar: Often used after 'good', 'poor', 'safe', etc.: good cash handling.
Patterns
- good cash handling
- safe cash handling
- improve cash handling
The audit praised the branch for its safe cash handling.
New machines have improved cash handling at the bank.
Common combinations
- cash handling procedures
- The company updated its cash handling procedures last month.
- cash handling training
- Every new cashier must complete cash handling training.
- responsible for cash handling
- She is responsible for cash handling at the front desk.
- cash handling error
- A cash handling error caused the till to be short.
Synonyms and how they differ
- money handling
- Similar, but 'money handling' is broader and less common in retail job descriptions.
- cash management
- More formal and often refers to controlling a company's cash flow, not just physically dealing with notes and coins.
Word family
- cash handler noun
- A person whose job involves dealing with money.
Commonly confused: cash handling or cashier?
cash handling vs cashier
A cashier is the person; cash handling is the activity or process.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'cash handling' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Cash handling' is uncountable, so it cannot take 'a' or a plural. It is used as a noun phrase, often after 'responsible for'. Options An and B are ungrammatical, and D uses it as a verb, which it is not.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “cash handling”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.