CASHIER

cashier

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

teller, cashier, bank clerk

(noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money

cashier

(verb) discharge with dishonor, as in the army

cashier

(verb) discard or do away with; “cashier the literal sense of this word”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

cashier (third-person singular simple present cashiers, present participle cashiering, simple past and past participle cashiered)

(transitive, now rare) to dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service

(transitive) to discard, put away

(transitive) to annul

Etymology 2

Noun

cashier (plural cashiers)

One who works at a till or receives payments.

Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.

Hyponyms

• saraf (early modern Middle East & India), shroff (India, SE & East Asia, esp. in parking lots)

Anagrams

• Archies, cahiers

Source: Wiktionary


Cash*ier", n. Etym: [F. caissier, fr. caisse. See Cash.]

Definition: 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.

Cash*ier", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cahiered; p. pr. &vb. n. Cashiering.] Etym: [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 frust. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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