cashier
VerbSubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//kəˈʃɪə//
- Vereinigtes Königreich//kaˈʃɪə//
To discard, put away.
Verb
- 1
altertümlichTo dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.
His ninth Legion having mutined neere unto Placentia, he presently cassiered the same with great ignominie unto it[…].
The recent cashiering for disobedience of orders of a Major-General who is claimed, we know not with what truth, to be of the "conservative" order, has raised this outcry louder and fiercer than ever.
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.
Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.
- 2
To discard, put away.
Today, haute couture is finished, snorts [Pierre] Bergé at his most gallic, no more than a licence to flog scent and handbags, and a pastime for bored supermodels and cashiered pop stars.
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.
- 3
To annul.
Herkunft
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.
Substantiv
- 1
One who works at a till or receives payments.
The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.
So when everyone was stopping at the grocery store for one or two things on the way home from work, inundating each express lane with at least ten custies, the cashier on the express lane was due for a break […]
- 2
Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.
Herkunft
Borrowed from Dutch cassier or French caissier, from French caisse.
Verb
- 1
To work as a cashier (at a till or receiving payment).
The employer places more emphasis on cashiering skills. Taking the customer's money has risen in importance to the point where many stores have specialists whose sole duty is manning the cash registers.
The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.
Formen
- Plural
- cashiers
- Präteritum
- cashiered
- Partizip II
- cashiered
- Partizip I
- cashiering
- 3. Person Singular
- cashiers