DCHP-3

cash district

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a settled area where money is the usual medium of exchange, as opposed to a backwoods area, where barter is usual.

Quotations

1842
. . . it becomes a highly important question what are the market or cash districts (as they are sometimes called), in contradistinction to those in the bush.