The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of cashier English)
Wikipedia
Cashiering (or degradation ceremony) generally within military forces is a ritual dismissal of an individual from some position of responsibility for a breach of discipline. From the Flemish 'Kasseren' the phrase entered the English language in the late 16th century, during the wars in the Low Countries. Although the O.E.D. states that the first printed use in this sense appears in Shakespeare's Othello (1603), it appeared in the 1595 tract The Estate of English Fugitives by Lewes Lewkenor, 'imploring his help and assistance in so hard an extremity, who for recompence, very charitably cashiered them all without the receipt of one penny.'
Usage examples of "cashiering".
Perhaps the apprehensions our ancestors entertained of forming such a precedent as that "of cashiering for misconduct" was the cause that the declaration of the act, which implied the abdication of King James, was, if it had any fault, rather too guarded and too circumstantial.
Tymmo jostled the spectators still watching the rest of the race, making his way toward one of the cashiering stations where other winners had already queued up.
Lando said, stepping out of line and moving toward the cashiering station.
The next winner, grinning and oblivious, stepped up to the cashiering station.
Wearily, not wanting to give the ultras around Lincoln the satisfaction of cashiering him for insubordination, McClellan assured Halleck that he would use all his skill in maneuver and logistics to bring his men safely north, if that was the President's final decision.
Lincoln's personal cashiering of Key's brother John was a deliberate signal.
And Kahzos could only think of that disgraceful business some years, back, of the ruined career and cashiering of an officer who had set his battalions on mercenary "allies" when they refused to fight.
And Kahzos could only think of that disgraceful business some years back, of the ruined career and cashiering of an officer who had set his battalions on mercenary "allies" when they refused to fight.
I'm getting doggoned tired of cashiering for fifteen a week and getting docked for shortages I don't make.
The Party, the Federal Security Bureau, and the European Peoples' Army were maneuvering against each other in an unprecedentedly overt manner: military budgets queried, more MEPs and Party officials under suspicion or arrest, inquiries launched into FSB illegalities, rapid promotions and demotions and cashierings, military exercises proceeding without authorization, unscheduled call-ups of reservists (which, I guessed, added draft-evasion to my crimes).