Noun

1. A store of things that will be required in future, and can be retrieved rapidly. A cache may, or may not, be hidden.

   Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down food caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from food cache to food cache on their return journey.

2. A fast temporary storage where most recent or most frequent values are stored to avoid having to reload from a slower storage medium.
3. In evasion and recovery operations, source of subsistence and supplies, typically containing items such as food, water, medical items, and/or communications equipment, packaged to prevent damage from exposure and hidden in isolated locations by such methods as burial, concealment, and/or submersion, to support evaders in current or future operations.
4. A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

Related terms

• concealment
• evader
• evasion
• evasion and recovery
• recovery
• recovery operations

Verb

1. First and third person singular of cacher

   je cache

   il/elle/on cache