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CASHIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cashier" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
Synonyms:
bank clerk; cashier; teller
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("cashier" is a kind of...):
banker (a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they cashier ... he / she / it cashiers
Past simple: cashiered
Past participle: cashiered
-ing form: cashiering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Discharge with dishonor, as in the army
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "cashier" is one way to...):
discharge; free (free from obligations or duties)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Discard or do away with
Example:
cashier the literal sense of this word
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "cashier" is one way to...):
abolish; get rid of (do away with)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
His father had been a bank cashier, but he lingered for years, dying of consumption in Arizona, so that when he was dead, Mr. Butler, Charles Butler he was called, found himself alone in the world.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Thus, in addition to the cousins Dorothy and Florence, Martin encountered two university professors, one of Latin, the other of English; a young army officer just back from the Philippines, one-time school-mate of Ruth's; a young fellow named Melville, private secretary to Joseph Perkins, head of the San Francisco Trust Company; and finally of the men, a live bank cashier, Charles Hapgood, a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of Stanford University, member of the Nile Club and the Unity Club, and a conservative speaker for the Republican Party during campaigns—in short, a rising young man in every way.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
