Meaning & use
cash-rich
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Meaning
adjectivecomparablebusinessfinance
Having a large amount of money available to spend or invest.
Grammar: Can be comparative: 'cash-richer', 'cash-richest', but these are rare.
Patterns
- a cash-rich company
- be cash-rich
- become cash-rich
The cash-rich tech giant bought three startups in one month.
After the sale, the family became cash-rich but asset-poor.
Cash-rich investors are looking for new opportunities.
Word forms
| comparative | cash-richer |
|---|---|
| superlative | cash-richest |
Common combinations
- cash-rich company
- The cash-rich company easily funded the research.
- cash-rich investors
- Cash-rich investors drove up the price of the property.
- become cash-rich
- After the IPO, the founders became cash-rich.
Synonyms and how they differ
- wealthy
- A general term for having a lot of money; 'cash-rich' specifically means having a lot of liquid cash, not just assets.
- liquid
- In finance, 'liquid' means easily converted to cash; 'cash-rich' means already holding a lot of cash.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: cash-rich or asset-rich?
cash-rich vs asset-rich
Asset-rich means owning valuable things like property, but not necessarily having cash; cash-rich means having actual money available.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'cash-rich' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Option 0 correctly uses 'cash-rich' as an adjective describing the company. Option 2 is redundant and awkward.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “cash-rich”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.