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
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
cashier (plural cashiers)
One who works at a till or receives payments.
Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.
• saraf (early modern Middle East & India), shroff (India, SE & East Asia, esp. in parking lots)
• 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
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
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