1
as in to sack
to let go from office, service, or employment
was abruptly cashiered after money was found missing from the safe
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as in to unload
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
the company is giving away a clutter of computers that have recently been cashiered for obsolescence
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Recent Examples of cashier
The movie, which Polanski wrote with the British novelist Robert Harris (on whose 2013 novel it’s based), starts not with Dreyfus’s arrest or conviction but with his cashiering ceremony, in the courtyard of the École Militaire, in Paris.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
Federal employees have been cashiered by the thousands.
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Steve Chapman,
Chicago Tribune,
4 June 2025
The House version repeals some important parts of it, such as the electric vehicle tax credit, but stops short of cashiering it entirely.
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The Editors,
National Review,
23 May 2025
At 16, Gonzalez started by bagging groceries, cleaning, cashiering and performing other ground-floor duties.
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Lou Ponsi,
Orange County Register,
27 Jan. 2025
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
Federal employees have been cashiered by the thousands.
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Steve Chapman,
Chicago Tribune,
4 June 2025
The House version repeals some important parts of it, such as the electric vehicle tax credit, but stops short of cashiering it entirely.
—
The Editors,
National Review,
23 May 2025
At 16, Gonzalez started by bagging groceries, cleaning, cashiering and performing other ground-floor duties.
—
Lou Ponsi,
Orange County Register,
27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cashier
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The junta then sacked hundreds of French forces sent to fight extremist groups.
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Bellamy, 46, is poised to take his first full-time job in club management, replacing Scott Parker who was sacked in April following Burnley’s relegation from the Premier League.
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There is no scrapeable archive of how to grasp a wet cup, unload a box that sags in the middle, fold a towel, or help an older adult out of a chair.
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The port attributed the declines to shippers wanting to unload cargo at a first or second port call to get ahead of any tariff deadlines.
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The firms asked the judge to dismiss the case Wednesday, arguing Uber had failed to prove fraud.
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Delta denied this in its legal response, seeking to dismiss the case.
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Plum Island beaches in Newburyport, Massachusetts are closed after 60,000 gallons of wastewater were accidentally dumped into the Merrimack River on Thursday.
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By the end of the debate, about 150 men dressed in Indigenous costumes, their faces smeared with soot, stormed to a nearby wharf and dumped a literal boatload of tea into the water.
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Propellers can be particularly burdensome because rotors often need to be removed, cleaned and reinstalled, requiring some real elbow grease.
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The pool is being cleaned twice annually, with 10 to 15 large truckloads of debris removed at each cleaning, the National Park Service reports.
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Once everything is clean, discard the next few batches of ice before resuming use.
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Nationally, the survey found that 43% of respondents always or usually discard food near or past the date on the label, up from 37% in 2016.
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Anguay succeeds Paul Lau, a 45-year veteran of the utility who in January announced his intention to retire.
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Lord retired the first two batters in the ninth before Turner singled and Marsh homered to right.
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Starmer ditched some of his predecessor’s more left-wing policies and apologized for antisemitism that an internal investigation concluded had been allowed to spread under Corbyn.
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There are many reasons for this – not the least of which is that ditching the pilot and the cockpit itself opens up the opportunity to not only simplify the design of the aircraft, but also free up valuable cargo space and reduce weight.
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“Cashier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cashier. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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