cashier

English

Etymology 1

From Dutch casseren, kasseren, from Old French casser (“to break (up)”). During a ceremonial cashiering of a ranking military officer, the breakup was often symbolized dramatically by literally breaking the officer’s sword.

Pronunciation 1

(UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈʃɪə/

Pronunciation 2

Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Verb

cashier (third-person singular simple present cashiers, present participle cashiering, simple past and past participle cashiered)

(transitive, now rare) To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 34, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  His ninth Legion having mutined neere unto Placentia, he presently cassiered the same with great ignominie unto it […].
- 1968, Revilo P. Oliver, “What We Owe Our Parasites” (speech):
  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.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p.510:
  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.
- 2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, 402:
  Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.
(transitive) To discard, put away.
- April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair‎:
  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.
  adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books
(transitive) To annul.

Translations

to dismiss from service

Bulgarian: уволнявам (bg) (uvolnjavam)
Catalan: destituir (ca)
Dutch: ontslaan (nl)
Finnish: erottaa (fi)
Greek: αποτάσσω (el) (apotásso)
Hungarian: elbocsát (hu), felfüggeszt (hu), rangjától megfoszt
Irish: bris, urscaoil
Romanian: destitui (ro)
Spanish: destituir (es)

Etymology 2

From Dutch cassier or French caissier, from French caisse.

Alternative forms

casheer (obsolete)

Pronunciation 1

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kaˈʃɪə/, /ˈkaʃɪə/

Pronunciation 2

Audio (UK) (file)

Noun

cashier (plural cashiers)

One who works at a till or receives payments.
Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.

Hyponyms

saraf (early modern Middle East & India), shroff (India, SE & East Asia, esp. in parking lots)

Descendants

→ Punjabi: ਕੈਸ਼ੀਅਰ (kaiśīara)

Translations

one who works at a till or receives payments

Albanian: arkëtar (sq) m, arkëtare (sq) f
Arabic: كَاشِير‎ m (kāšēr), كَاشِير‎ m (kāšīr), صَرَّاف‎ m (ṣarrāf)
Armenian: գանձապահ (hy) (ganjapah)
Azerbaijani: kassir, xəzinədar
Belarusian: касі́р m (kasír), касі́рка f (kasírka)
Bulgarian: касие́р m (kasiér), касие́рка f (kasiérka)
Burmese: ငွေကိုင် (ngwekuing)
Catalan: caixer m
Cebuano: kahero (male), kahera (female)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 出納員／出纳员 (zh) (chūnàyuán)
Czech: pokladní (cs) m or f
Danish: kassedame c, kasserer c
Dutch: kassier (nl) m
Estonian: laekur
Finnish: kassamyyjä (fi) (in a grocery etc.), kassa (fi) (general), kassaneiti (fi), kassavirkailija (in a bank or similar)
French: caissier (fr) m, caissière (fr) f
German: Kassierer (de) m, Kassiererin (de) f
Greek: ταμίας (el) c (tamías)
Hungarian: pénztáros (hu), pénztárosnő (hu) f
Irish: airgeadóir m
Italian: cassiere (it) m, cassiera f
Japanese: 出納係 (すいとうがかり, suitōgakari), レジ係 (レジがかり, reji gakari)
Kazakh: кассир (kk) (kassir)
Korean: 출납계(出納係) (chullapgye), 회계원(會計員) (ko) (hoegyewon)
Kyrgyz: кассир (kassir)
Latin: cistellātrix f
Latvian: kasieris m, kasiere f
Lithuanian: kasininkas (lt) m
Macedonian: касие́р m (kasiér), касие́рка f (kasiérka), благајник m (blagajnik), благајничка f (blagajnička)
Malay: juruwang (ms)
Manx: argideyr m
Navajo: naʼiiłniihí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kassadame m or f (female), kasserer m
Nynorsk: kassadame f (female)
Persian: صندوقدار‎ (fa) (sanduqdâr)
Piedmontese: cassié m, cassiera f
Polish: kasjer (pl) m, kasjerka (pl) f
Portuguese: caixa (pt) m or f
Romanian: casier (ro) m, casieră (ro) f, casieriță (ro) f
Russian: касси́р (ru) m (kassír), касси́рша (ru) f (kassírša)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̀сӣр m, ка̀сӣрка f, бла̀га̄јнӣк m, бла̀га̄јница f
Roman: kàsīr (sh) m, kàsīrka (sh) f, blàgājnīk (sh) m, blàgājnica (sh) f
Slovak: pokladník m, pokladníčka f
Slovene: blagajnik m, blagajničar m, blagajničarka f
Spanish: cajero (es) m
Swedish: kassör (sv) m, kassörska (sv) f, kassapersonal (sv) c
Tagalog: kahero (tl)
Tajik: сандуқдор (sanduqdor), кассир (kassir)
Ukrainian: каси́р (uk) m (kasýr), каси́рка (uk) f (kasýrka)
Uzbek: kassir (uz)
Vietnamese: nhân viên tính tiền
Welsh: ariannwr m
Yiddish: קאַסירער‎ m (kasirer)

person in charge of the cash of a business or bank

Albanian: arkëtar (sq) m, arkëtare (sq) f
Arabic: أَمِينُ الصُّنْدُوقِ‎ m (ʾamīnu ṣ-ṣundūqi)
Armenian: գանձապահ (hy) (ganjapah)
Belarusian: касі́р m (kasír), касі́рка f (kasírka)
Bulgarian: касиер m (kasier)
Catalan: caixer m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 出納員／出纳员 (zh) (chūnàyuán)
Czech: pokladní (cs) m or f, pokladník (cs) m, pokladnice f
Danish: kasserer c
Esperanto: kasisto
Finnish: kassanhoitaja (fi), pääkassa
German: Kassierer (de) m, Kassiererin (de) f
Greek: ταμίας (el) c (tamías)
Hungarian: pénztáros (hu), pénztárosnő (hu) f, pénztárnok (hu), pénzkezelő, pénzügyi ügyintéző
Irish: airgeadóir m
Korean: 계산원(計算員) (gyesanwon)
Macedonian: благајник m (blagajnik)
Manx: argideyr m
Portuguese: caixa (pt) m or f
Romanian: casier (ro) m, casieră (ro) f, casieriță (ro) f
Russian: касси́р (ru) m (kassír), касси́рша (ru) f (kassírša)
Slovak: pokladník m, pokladníčka f
Spanish: cajero (es) m
Swedish: kassör (sv) c
Turkish: veznedar (tr), kasiyer (tr)
Ukrainian: каси́р (uk) m (kasýr), каси́рка (uk) f (kasýrka)
Vietnamese: thu ngân (vi)
Welsh: ariannwr m

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Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} קופאי‎ (he) m (qupa'y), ^{(please verify)} קופאית‎ f (qupa'yt) - noun

Verb

cashier (third-person singular simple present cashiers, present participle cashiering, simple past and past participle cashiered)

To work as a cashier (at a till or receiving payment)

Anagrams

Archies, Raiches, archies, cahiers