CASHIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cashier mean? 

• CASHIER (noun)
  The noun CASHIER has 2 senses:

1. an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money

2. a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant)

  Familiarity information: CASHIER used as a noun is rare.

• CASHIER (verb)
  The verb CASHIER has 2 senses:

1. discard or do away with

2. discharge with dishonor, as in the army

  Familiarity information: CASHIER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASHIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An employee of a bank who receives and pays out money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bank clerk; cashier; teller

Hypernyms ("cashier" is a kind of...):

banker (a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("cashier" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

• CASHIER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cashier    ... he / she / it cashiers   
Past simple: cashiered   
Past participle: cashiered   
-ing form: cashiering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Discard or do away with

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

cashier the literal sense of this word

Hypernyms (to "cashier" is one way to...):

abolish; get rid of (do away with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Discharge with dishonor, as in the army

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "cashier" is one way to...):

discharge; free (free from obligations or duties)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

She'd make a good wife for the cashier.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Hosmer—Mr. Angel—was a cashier in an office in Leadenhall Street—and— (...) What office?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had before served me a scurvy trick, which set the queen a-laughing, although at the same time she was heartily vexed, and would have immediately cashiered him, if I had not been so generous as to intercede.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Thermal paper receipts are easily identified by the customer since they are those receipts that, after some time, lose what they have printed on them and, when you are going to return the trousers you bought, the cashiers tell you that they cannot see anything.

(Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, University of Granada)

Melville, the bank cashier, fascinated him, and he resolved to investigate him at the first opportunity.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty £ 1000 notes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cashier was Martin's black beast, and his temper was a trifle short where the talker of platitudes was concerned.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nevertheless Martin liked him better than the platitudinous bank cashier.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But in Martin's estimation the whole tribe of bank cashiers fell a few hundred per cent, and for the rest of the evening he labored under the impression that bank cashiers and talkers of platitudes were synonymous phrases.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So Martin thought, and he thought further, till it dawned upon him that the difference between these lawyers, officers, business men, and bank cashiers he had met and the members of the working class he had known was on a par with the difference in the food they ate, clothes they wore, neighborhoods in which they lived.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)