cashier

C2+ Topic:Shopping & Services

US /kæˈʃɪr/ UK /kæˈʃɪə/ See IPA manual

noun verb

Meanings

1

noun
a person who handles payments; to dismiss from service in disgrace

The cashier counted out the change carefully.

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Synonyms

1 noun · a person who handles... teller clerk dismiss discharge cast sack oust depose

Opposites

reinstate appoint hire

Word family

Derived forms cashieredcashiering

Related forms cash

Etymology

The noun ('one who handles cash') is from French caissier, from caisse ('money box'), ultimately Latin capsa ('box'). The verb ('to dismiss in disgrace') is a separate borrowing from Dutch casseren / French casser ('to break, annul'), from Latin quassare ('to shatter').

capsa Latin quassare Latin

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# cashier

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** kæˈʃɪr
**IPA (UK):** kæˈʃɪə

## Meanings
1. a person who handles payments; to dismiss from service in disgrace

## Examples
- The cashier counted out the change carefully.

## Synonyms
- teller
- clerk
- dismiss
- discharge
- cast
- sack
- oust
- depose

## Antonyms
- reinstate
- appoint
- hire

## Derived Forms
- cashiered
- cashiering

## Related Forms
- cash

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: capsa
- Root: quassare

## Etymology
The noun ('one who handles cash') is from French caissier, from caisse ('money box'), ultimately Latin capsa ('box'). The verb ('to dismiss in disgrace') is a separate borrowing from Dutch casseren / French casser ('to break, annul'), from Latin quassare ('to shatter').

## AI Etymology
Cashier is traced as follows: The noun ('one who handles cash') is from French caissier, from caisse ('money box'), ultimately Latin capsa ('box'). The verb ('to dismiss in disgrace') is a separate borrowing from Dutch casseren / French casser ('to break, annul'), from Latin quassare ('to shatter'). The historical trail runs through capsa in Latin and quassare in Latin. Used as a noun and verb, cashier now means "a person who handles payments; to dismiss from service in disgrace", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in derived forms such as cashiered and cashiering and related forms such as cash. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

## Topics
- Shopping & Services
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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