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3 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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