cache

Etymology 1

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

noun

1. A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
   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. (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
3. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

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. 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
2. (transitive, computing) 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. 2008, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, The Definitive Guide to Django, Apress, page 203

Etymology 2

noun

1. 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. 2014, Nils Bubandt, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia