cashier

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: tellerbank clerk

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. an employee of a bank who receives and pays out moneySynonyms: tellerbank clerk
  2. a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant)

Verb (2)

  1. discard or do away with“cashier the literal sense of this word”
  2. discharge with dishonor, as in the army
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Cashier \Cash*ier"\ (k[a^]sh*[=e]r"), n. [F. caissier, fr. caisse. See Cash.] 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. [1913 Webster]
Cashier \Cash*ier"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cashiered; 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.]

1.To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust. [1913 Webster]

They have cashiered several of their followers.— Addison.[1913 Webster]
He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

2.To put away or reject; to disregard. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Connections formed for interest, and endeared [1913 Webster]
By selfish views, [are] censured and cashiered.— Cowper.[1913 Webster]
They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words.— Sowth.[1913 Webster]
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