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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cashier
I.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A cashier thought she recognized him as the man who had done it.
▪ As a first step toward cutting costs, Helen volunteered to go to work in the chicken palace, as the cashier.
▪ He stood outside the boutique, peered in and saw her in a big black coat talking with the cashier.
▪ She was working as a petrol station cashier when armed robbers threatened her with a knife during a raid.
▪ They may also be grocery cashiers, meter readers, pharmacists, apartment home managers and ministers.
▪ You hand your smart card to the cashier at a restaurant and she runs it through a scanner.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All four had been cashiered following the overthrow of former President Moussa Traore on March 26.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cashier

Cashier \Cash*ier"\ (k[a^]sh*[=e]r"), n. [F. caissier, fr. caisse. See Cash.] One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.

Cashier

Cashier \Cash*ier"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cahiered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cashiering.] [Earlier cash, fr. F. casser to break, annul, cashier, fr. L. cassare, equiv. to cassum reddere, to annul; cf. G. cassiren. Cf. Quash to annul, Cass.]

  1. To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust.

    They have cashiered several of their followers.
    --Addison.

    He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To put away or reject; to disregard. [R.]

    Connections formed for interest, and endeared

    By selfish views, [are] censured and cashiered.
    --Cowper.

    They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words.
    --Sowth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cashier

"person in charge of money," 1590s, from Middle French caissier "treasurer," from caisse "money box" (see cash (n.)). The immediate source of the English word might be Middle Dutch kassier.\n

cashier

"dismiss," 1590s, from Middle Dutch casseren, kaseeren "to cast off, discharge," from French casser "to discharge, annul," from Late Latin cassare "annul," from Latin cassus "void, empty" (see caste (n.)). Related: Cashiered; cashiering.

Wiktionary
cashier

Etymology 1 vb. (context now rare English) To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service. Etymology 2

n. 1 One who works at a till or receives payments. 2 Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.

WordNet
cashier
  1. n. an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money [syn: teller, bank clerk]

  2. a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant)

cashier
  1. v. discard or do away with; "cashier the literal sense of this word"

  2. discharge with dishonor, as in the army

Wikipedia
Cashier

A cashier is a person who handles the cash register at various locations such as the point of sale in a retail store. The most common use of the title is in the retail industry, but this job title is also used in the context of accountancy for the person responsible for receiving and disbursing money or within branch banking in the United Kingdom for the job known in the United States as a bank teller.

Usage examples of "cashier".

Those on the right, as one looked towards the apse, were for the Managers and Cashiers of the Bank, while those on the left were for their wives and daughters.

The VicePresident, Head Manager, Vice-Manager, and some Cashiers of the Bank, now ranged themselves on either side of him, and formed an impressive group as they stood, gorgeously arrayed, at the top of the steps leading from the apse to the nave.

She selected three, adding them to the small roast chicken, French baguette, and assorted vegetables in her shopping basket, and took it all over to the cashier.

The sight of his customerless shop and his three cashiers huddled together at one checkout increased his gloom.

And Giliahna knew that the young man was perfectly capable of carrying out that threat, for when an especially predatory and ruthless band of cashiered Freefighters and assorted outlaws began to pray upon the trade road between Kuhmbuhluhnburk and Getzburk, the new prince mustered his horse guards and every resident or visiting nobleman and fosterling who was not too old or too young, and sent gallopers to bear word to both the High Lords in Kehnooryos Atheenahs and to Duke Randee of Getzburk-York that he was campaigning to crush and extirpate the robbers and that he did not mean for borders to stop him.

He had spoken to the cashier, who had stated that if I liked the bank would lend double the sum I had asked.

I hid from you that I had been with that woman who lived with us, with her companion, the cashier of the Academie des Mongolfceristes.

In your place I should cashier your lobcocks out of hand and place everything with Smith.

He had cashiered Sha earlier for failing to protect his younger brother, Garma, in battle.

A bill was accordingly brought in, importing, that interest after the rate of three per cent, should be allowed upon every debenture, for the bounty on the exportation of com, payable by the receiver-general or cashier of the customs, until the principal could be discharged out of such customs or duties as are appropriated for the payment of this bounty.

When he cashed out, he never suspected a thing when she offered to redeposit his whole wad with the cashier while he went back to the room.

The cashier had advised Gamay to park at a clearing near a big glacial boulder and to walk through the woods.

He left his science book in the checkroom, along with the scorebook and the basketball, showed his membership card to the cashier, and took a preliminary stroll around the Haida war canoe in the 77th Street lobby.

Any gross misstatement on the part of a bank cashier would almost certainly subject him to a rigid examination, and to the penalty of dismissal.

Sha Aznable, unable to protect his superior, Garma Zavi, incurred the wrath of Vice Adm. Dozzle Zavi and was cashiered from the Mobile Assault Forces.