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/kæʃˈɪr/ Listen

noun

Cashier n. 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.

verb

Cashier v. t. (past & past part. cashiered; pres. part. cashiering)

To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust. "They have cashiered several of their followers." "He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard."

To put away or reject; to disregard. (R.) "Connections formed for interest, and endeared" "By selfish views, (are) censured and cashiered." "They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words."

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... he insisted, and snapped his fingers at Marculescu, who fumed impotently behind the cashier's desk. ...

— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass

... German, and used the words of the German translation of the Holy Scriptures which contain the institution of baptism, as neither the brother nor sister understood English. The brother, who had been a teacher and cashier in a considerable establishment in Wirtemberg for educating young gentlemen, and who had lost his situation when his views with reference to baptism became known, remained in England as teacher of the French and German languages, ...

— A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Mueller - Written by Himself, Third Part • George Mueller

... an examination for the latter. As he came in, I saw that he was in a bad humor. Said he, "This boy is a fool. If you can find any talent in him you will succeed better than I have. My desire is, that he should occupy a position in my bank and ultimately become cashier. Our present cashier is a first-class business man and can add up four columns of figures at once, and I have sent this boy to several business colleges with the request that he be taught the same accomplishment. I have spent seven hundred and fifty dollars on this boy's mathematics, and he ...

— How to Become Rich - A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony • William Windsor

... experienced cashier of this city remarked to me that women might be as good book-keepers as men; but men have monopolized every lucrative situation, from the dry-goods merchant down to whitewashing. Who does not feel, ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... for hire. He was a sad dog, for, in the course of a quarter of an hour he ran up a score upon the strength of an alleged promise on our parts to pay all expenses, and succeeded in wheedling another zwanziger in advance out of our cashier, the military Lubecker. This piece of money, however, on being proffered in payment of a last half-pint of beer, was instantly confiscated by the ...

— A Tramp's Wallet - stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France • William Duthie

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