Other forms: cashiers
A cashier is the person at the till who takes your money in a shop. Ask the cashier, the cashier called for help, a bank cashier.
In banks the cashier is the person at the counter, called a teller in America. In supermarkets the checkout operator is often called a cashier too. The stress is on the last syllable: cash-EER. There is an unrelated verb cashier, meaning to dismiss an officer from the armed forces in disgrace, which is where the word actually comes from and which almost nobody meets outside military history.
1nouncashierSomebody who takes payment at a till or bank counter.
“The cashier had been on the same till for eighteen years.”
synonyms: teller, checkout operator
cashier is a worker who handles money.
Dutch casseren, to dismiss, from French casser, to break — that is the source of the military verb. The money sense came separately from French caissier, keeper of the cash box, and the two collided into one English spelling.
Old French
casser — to break (up)
Dutch
casseren
English, today
cashier
From Dutch casseren, kasseren, from Old French casser (“to break (up)”). During a ceremonial cashiering of a ranking military officer, the breakup was often symbolized dramatically by literally breaking the officer’s sword.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA