Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cashier"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cashier \Cash*ier"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cahiered}; 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.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

cashier
n : an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money [syn:
{teller}, {bank clerk}]
v 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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