cashier

present singular third person cashiers · participle present cashiering · participle past cashiered · past cashiered

1. archaictransitiveTo dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.

   His ninth Legion having mutined neere unto Placentia, he presently cassiered the same with great ignominie unto it[…].

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 34, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

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   The recent cashiering for disobedience of orders of a Major-General who is claimed, we know not with what truth, to be of the "conservative" order, has raised this outcry louder and fiercer than ever.

   1863 February 1, “Politics of Military Commanders.”, in The New York Times

   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.

   1968, Revilo P. Oliver, “What We Owe Our Parasites” (speech)

   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.

   2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 510

   Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.

   2012, Jonathan Keates, “Mon Père, ce héros”, in Literary Review, section 402

2. transitiveTo discard, put away.

   Today, haute couture is finished, snorts [Pierre] Bergé at his most gallic, no more than a licence to flog scent and handbags, and a pastime for bored supermodels and cashiered pop stars.

   2015 November 26, Stephen Smith, “The £30m bookshelf: Pierre Bergé and the greatest stories ever sold”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   Once Princess in Love was published, Diana threw both Hewitt and Pasternak under the bus. Besotted to the end, her cashiered toy soldier never revealed whether or not he had done her bidding.

   2022 April 5, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair

3. transitiveTo annul.

plural cashiers · alternative obsolete casheer

1. One who works at a till or receives payments.

   The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.

   2007, Thomas Quealy, M + M

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   So when everyone was stopping at the grocery store for one or two things on the way home from work, inundating each express lane with at least ten custies, the cashier on the express lane was due for a break […]

   2012, Freeman Hall, Coworker Hell: A Retail Hell Underground Digital Short

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

present singular third person cashiers · participle present cashiering · participle past cashiered · past cashiered · alternative obsolete casheer

1. intransitiveTo work as a cashier (at a till or receiving payment).

   The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.

   2007, Thomas Quealy, M + M

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   The employer places more emphasis on cashiering skills. Taking the customer's money has risen in importance to the point where many stores have specialists whose sole duty is manning the cash registers.

   1983 May 15, Linda Dyer, “A CUSTOMER'S RIGHTS”, in The New York Times