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Dictionary: cash·ier1   (kă-shîr') pronunciation
n.
  1. The officer of a bank or business concern in charge of paying and receiving money.
  2. A store employee who handles cash transactions with customers.

[Dutch cassier or French caissier, both from French caisse, money box, from Old Provençal caisa, from Vulgar Latin *capsea, from Latin capsa, case.]


ca·shier2 (kă-shîr') pronunciation
tr.v., -shiered, -shier·ing, -shiers.
To dismiss from a position of command or responsibility, especially for disciplinary reasons. See synonyms at dismiss.

[Dutch casseren, from Old French casser, to dismiss, annul. See quash1.]


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fulfillment function that includes the receipt of and the accounting for monies received for cash and credit orders in preparation for a bank deposit. The cashiering function in some organizations includes all cage functions as well but is usually limited to the preparation of bank deposits.

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Person in a business who accepts payment in money and credit sales, provides change as needed, and records the transaction, generally assisted by a cash register.

Banking Dictionary: Cashier
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Bank officer responsible for custody of the bank's earning assets, and whose signature is required on official bank checks, called Cashier's Checks and all official correspondence.

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verb

    To end the employment or service of: discharge, dismiss, drop, release, terminate. Informal ax, fire, pink-slip. Slang boot, bounce, can, sack. Idioms: give someone his or her walking papers, give someone the ax, give someone the gate, give someone the pink slip, let go, show someone the door. See keep/release.

Cashier (from Flemish: kassern, to disband or revoke, and Fr.: casser, to break). The word has come to mean the dismissal of an officer with disgrace. Once the term applied to all ranks: convicted troopers in the New Model Army were ‘cashiered the army as not worthy to ride therein’, as a contemporary put it. The process sometimes involved public degradation, with the convicted officer being stripped of his badges and insignia and having his sword broken: Capt Dreyfus was thus degraded after conviction for espionage in 1894. Even if the offender was spared public humiliation, cashiering, with its implied loss of caste, was a painful sentence.

— Richard Holmes

v. (usually be cashiered) dismiss someone from the armed forces in disgrace because of a serious misdemeanor: he was found guilty and cashiered | (cashiered) a cashiered National Guard major.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: An employee of a store or restaurant who receives payments from customers.

pronunciation The cashier worked efficiently behind the counter.

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A cashier at her register in a Panamian grocery store.

A cashier is a person who scans the goods through a machine called a cash register that the consumer wishes to purchase at the retail store. After all of the goods have been scanned, the cashier then collects payment for the goods or services exchanged. In one form or another, cashiers have been around for thousands of years. In many businesses, such as grocery stores, the cashier is a "stepping stone" position. Many employers require employees to be cashiers in order to move up to customer service or other positions such as produce.

Cashiers are at risk of repetitive strain injuries due to the repeated movements often necessary to do the job, such as entering information on a keypad or moving product over a scanner.

A less-current meaning of the term referred to the employee of a business responsible for receiving and disbursing money. In a non-retail business, this would be a position of significant responsibility. With an ever-larger proportion of transactions being done using cash substitutes (such as checks, credit cards, debit cards, etc.), the amount of cash handled by such employees has declined, and this usage of the word "cashier" has been largely supplanted by the title comptroller.

In the area of retail banking in the UK, the position of cashier is the same as a bank teller.

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - kasserer

2.
v. tr. - afsætte, dømme til embedsfortabelse, forkaste

Nederlands (Dutch)
caissière, kassier, oneervol ontslaan(uit leger etc.), afdanken

Français (French)
1.
n. - caissier, trésorier

2.
v. tr. - (gén) congédier (employé), casser (un officier)

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Kassierer/-in, Kassenwart

2.
v. - (in Schande) entlassen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ταμίας
v. - εκδιώκω, απολύω, (στρατ.) αποτάσσω (κν. ξηλώνω)

Italiano (Italian)
cassiere, tesoriere

Português (Portuguese)
n. - caixa (m)
v. - rebaixar

Русский (Russian)
кассир, казначей

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - cajero, cajera, tesorero, empleado de ventanilla

2.
v. tr. - destituir, degradar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kassör(-ska)
v. - avskeda

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 出纳, 出纳员

2. 撤...的职, 开除, 丢弃

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 出納, 出納員

2.
v. tr. - 撤...的職, 開除, 丟棄

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 출납원, 지배인

2.
v. tr. - 면직하다, 해고하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 出納係, レジ係, レジ
v. - 罷免する, 捨てる, 免職する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) أمين الصندوق (فعل) يطرد من الوظيفه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קופאי‬
v. tr. - ‮פיטר, הדיח, סילק‬


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