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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cashier \Cash*ier"\ (k[a^]sh*[=e]r"), noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cashier \Cash*ier"\, verb (used with an object) [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) 2.0 [wn]:
cashier
noun
1: an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money [syn: {teller}, {bank clerk}]
2: a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant)
verb
1: discard or do away with; "cashier the literal sense of this word"
2: discharge with dishonor, as in the army
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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