cashes in
Converts to currency
To cash in is to convert something to money, especially to redeem chips at a casino or sell an investment.
Extended uses involve exploiting an opportunity for gain: He cashed in on his fame with a book deal.
To cash in one's chips, beyond the literal casino sense, is a euphemism for dying.
- capitalizeMake a letter large
- makes a killingProfits enormously
- profitGain exceeding expenditure
- redeemRecover through payment
- monetizationConverting something into revenue
liquidation · windfall · golden parachute · convert · exploit · revenue · earnings · stock options · transform · leverage · seize · opportunistic · payout · dividends · exchange · retirement fund · gainful · advantage
converting to cash vs. committing resources
cashes inreinvests
Returns money to portfolio
invests · buys in · holds · plows back · rolls over
dying/ending vs. beginning (slang)
cashes inis born
Begins to exist
hangs on · pulls through · survives · carries on · lives on