cashier
verb/kæˈʃɪə(r)/
/kæˈʃɪr/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cashier | /kæˈʃɪə(r)/ /kæˈʃɪr/ |
| he / she / it cashiers | /kæˈʃɪəz/ /kæˈʃɪrz/ |
| past simple cashiered | /kæˈʃɪəd/ /kæˈʃɪrd/ |
| past participle cashiered | /kæˈʃɪəd/ /kæˈʃɪrd/ |
| -ing form cashiering | /kæˈʃɪərɪŋ/ /kæˈʃɪrɪŋ/ |
- cashier somebody to make somebody leave the army, navy, etc. because they have done something wrongTopics War and conflictc2Word Originverb late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dismiss or disband troops’): from Flemish kasseren ‘disband (troops)’ or ‘revoke (a will)’, from French casser ‘revoke, dismiss’, from Latin quassare, from cassus ‘null, void’.
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