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cashiered

cashiered is the simple past and past participle of cashier.

Meaning of cashier

Verb (1)

cashier (third-person singular simple present cashiers, present participle cashiering, simple past and past participle cashiered)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.
    • His ninth Legion having mutined neere unto Placentia, he presently cassiered the same with great ignominie unto it[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 34, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To discard, put away.
    • Today, haute couture is finished, snorts [Pierre] Bergé at his most gallic, no more than a licence to flog scent and handbags, and a pastime for bored supermodels and cashiered pop stars.2015 November 26, Stephen Smith, “The £30m bookshelf: Pierre Bergé and the greatest stories ever sold”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  3. (transitive) To annul.

Verb (2)

cashier (third-person singular simple present cashiers, present participle cashiering, simple past and past participle cashiered)

  1. (intransitive) To work as a cashier (at a till or receiving payment).
    • The employer places more emphasis on cashiering skills. Taking the customer's money has risen in importance to the point where many stores have specialists whose sole duty is manning the cash registers.1983 May 15, Linda Dyer, “A CUSTOMER'S RIGHTS”, in The New York Times

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Words formed from cashiered

Questions about cashiered

What is cashiered the simple past and past participle of?
Cashiered is the simple past and past participle of cashier.

Words near cashiered in the dictionary

  1. cashier's checks
  2. cashier's cheque
  3. cashier's cheques
  4. cashier's desk
  5. cashier's desks
  6. cashiered
  7. cashierer
  8. cashierers
  9. cashiering
  10. cashierings
  11. cashierless

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