cashier Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
    bank clerk; teller.
  2. noun a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant)
  3. verb discard or do away with
    • cashier the literal sense of this word
  4. verb discharge with dishonor, as in the army

WordNet

Cash*ier" noun
Etymology
F. caissier, fr. caisse. See Cash.
Definitions
  1. 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" transitive verb
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Cahiered ; present participle &verbal noun Cashiering
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913