cashier

(kă-shîr')
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')
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.

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.

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.

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

The cashier worked efficiently behind the counter.

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sign description: Both 5 hands make a gesture as if to be punching register keys, followed by the PERSON MARKER AGENT

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• Banking and Financial Services - cashier: bank officer responsible for receipts and disbursements
• Occupations and Job Titles

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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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