Pronunciation guide
How to pronounce cache
KASH - one syllable, exactly like 'cash'
US/kæʃ/
kæʃ
UK/kæʃ/
kæʃ
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Common mistake
Not 'ka-SHAY' - that is 'cachet'. This one is just 'cash'.
What “cache” means
A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
In a sentence
- Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from cache to cache on their return journey.
- The explorer hid a small cache of food and maps in the hollow of a tree for later retrieval.
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