• Cashier

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /kəˈʃɪə/
    • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

    Origin 1

    From Dutch casseren.

    Full definition of cashier

    Verb

    1. (now rare) To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.
      • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.34:His ninth Legion having mutined neere unto Placentia, he presently cassiered the same with great ignominie unto it ....
      • 1968, , “What We Owe Our Parasites” (speech):They found an Army officer who had been a military failure until Bernard Baruch promoted him to General, and who in 1945 should have been able to hope for nothing better than that he could escape a court martial and thus avoid being cashiered, if he could prove that all the atrocities and all the sabotage of American interests of which he had been guilty in Europe had been carried out over his protest and under categorical orders from the President.
      • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 510:The Directory had been deregulating the economy since Thermidor; but it had not cashiered the police spies on which the Terror had depended, and these allowed the government to keep abreast of the threat.
      • 2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, 402:Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /kaˈʃɪə/

    Origin 2

    From French caissier.

    Noun

    cashier

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

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