cashiered; cashiering; cashiers
1
transitive
: to dismiss from service
especially
: to dismiss dishonorably
… the RAF flight-lieutenant who was cashiered in early 1970 for "scandalous conduct" in performing his duties while naked. —
Fenton Bresler
Fenton Bresler 2
transitive
: reject, discard
At the heart of Sofia, midway between the erstwhile palace and the cashiered Party building, stands the statue of Nikolai Vaptzarov, poet and national hero.—Clive Sinclair
Clive Sinclair3
intransitive
: to work in a store as a cashier
When she's not cashiering she's busy sorting and pricing women's clothes.—Ellen Sussman
Ellen SussmanExamples of cashier in a Sentence
He was cashiered from the army.
was abruptly cashiered after money was found missing from the safe
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Earlier, Erskine had been cashiered from the army after being declared insane.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2025
While a flurry of bankruptcies did cashier a number of retail outlets, with Rite Aid and Joann leading the pack, the bankruptcy rate so far this year is much slower than last year at the same time, making the current trend that much more remarkable.
—Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Federal employees have been cashiered by the thousands.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
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Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2025
While a flurry of bankruptcies did cashier a number of retail outlets, with Rite Aid and Joann leading the pack, the bankruptcy rate so far this year is much slower than last year at the same time, making the current trend that much more remarkable.
—Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Federal employees have been cashiered by the thousands.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for cashier
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“Cashier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cashier. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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