Cashier

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: cash=ier

CIDE DICTIONARY

Cashier, 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.  [1913 Webster]

Cashier, v. t. [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.].

•  To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust.  [1913 Webster]

  "They have cashiered several of their followers."  [1913 Webster]

  "He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard."  [1913 Webster]
•  To put away or reject; to disregard.  [1913 Webster]

  "Connections formed for interest, and endeared"  [1913 Webster]

  "By selfish views, [are] censured and cashiered."  [1913 Webster]

  "They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Cashier, n. a person dealing with cash transactions in a shop, bank, etc.

Cashier, v.tr. dismiss from service, esp. from the armed forces with disgrace.

Etymology

Flem. kasseren disband, revoke, f. F casser f. L quassare QUASH

THESAURUS

Cashier

accountant, auditor, ax, bank clerk, bank manager, bank officer, bank president, banker, banking executive, bar, bill broker, bookkeeper, boot, boot out, bounce, break, bump, bursar, bust, cambist, can, cashkeeper, chamberlain, compensator, comptroller, controller, curator, deconsecrate, defrayer, defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, depose, depositary, depository, deprive, dethrone, disbar, discharge, discounter, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone, dismiss, displace, displume, drum out, eject, eliminate, exclude, excommunicate, expel, financial officer, fire, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, investment banker, kick, kick out, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, liquidate, liquidator, loan officer, make redundant, money broker, money changer, money dealer, moneylender, moneymonger, note broker, oust, overthrow, pass, payer, paymaster, pension, pension off, purge, purse bearer, purser, ratepayer, read out of, receiver, recompenser, release, remove, remove from office, remunerator, replace, retire, sack, separate forcibly, steward, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, surplus, suspend, taxpayer, teller, terminate, throw out, treasurer, trust officer, trustee, turn off, turn out, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone

ROGET THESAURUS

Cashier

Abrogation

VB abrogate, annul, cancel, destroy, abolish, revoke, repeal, rescind, reverse, retract, recall, abolitionize, overrule, override, set aside, disannul, dissolve, quash, nullify, declare null and void, disestablish, disendow, deconsecrate, disclaim, ignore, repudiate, recant, divest oneself, break off, countermand, counter order, do away with, sweep away, brush away, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, scatter to the winds, cast behind, dismiss, discard, cast off, turn off, cast out, cast adrift, cast out of doors, cast aside, cast away, send off, send away, send packing, send about one's business, discharge, get rid of, bounce, fire, fire out, sack, cashier, break, oust, unseat, unsaddle, unthrone, dethrone, disenthrone, depose, uncrown, unfrock, strike off the roll, disbar, disbench, be abrogated, receive its quietus, walk the plank.

Treasurer

N treasurer, bursar, bursary, purser, purse bearer, cash keeper, banker, depositary, questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller, cambist, money changer, financier, Secretary of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, minister of finance.