noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
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"Near-synonym: stash"
"The prophecies are an attempt to explore the mystery of democracy, to divine its origin in order to capitalize on its political cache, but also to diagnose the cause of its contemporary malaise."
"And here the adventurers went ashore, unloaded, turned their canoe bottom up in the shelter of thick brush, and cached their supplies temporarily on a pole scaffold, out of reach of prowling depredators."
"In this case, it would not be ideal to use the full-page caching that the per-site or per-view cache strategies offer, because you wouldn't want to cache the entire result (since some of the data changes often), but you'd still want to cache the results that rarely change."
"My neighbor found a cache of ancient Roman coins using his metal detector."
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.
Common synonyms include: hoard, memory cache, stash, ace in the hole, arsenals, asylum.
My neighbor found a cache of ancient Roman coins using his metal detector.
Pronounced /kæʃ/.
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).