cache

noun

1. 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.

   “Near-synonym: stash”

   “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.”

   “I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties”

2. 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.
3. 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.
4. (alt-of, misspelling)Misspelling of cachet.

   “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.”

verb

1. (transitive)To place in a cache.

   “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.”

2. (transitive)To store data in a cache.

   “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.”

3. (intransitive)To participate in geocaching.
4. (transitive)To hide or seek a geocache.
5. to store up, stockpile