Cache Meaning

/kæʃ/
B2

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nounA store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.

nounA 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.

My neighbor found a cache of ancient Roman coins using his metal detector.
They'll find your cigarette cache, and then you'll have problems.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After the earthquake, the rescuers discovered a ____ of emergency supplies hidden in the basement.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The explorers found a hidden ____ of food in the dark cave tonight.

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).

"I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties" — 1990, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant, “Being Boring”, performed by Pet Shop Boys:
"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." — 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
"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." — 2008, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, The Definitive Guide to Django, Apress, →ISBN, page 203:
"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." — 2014, Nils Bubandt, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
After the earthquake, the rescuers discovered a ____ of emergency supplies hidden in the basement.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The explorers found a hidden ____ of food in the dark cave tonight.

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