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Webster 1913 Edition

Cashier

Cash-ier′

(kăsh-ēr′)
,
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.

Cash-ier′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cashiered
;
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cashier

CASHIER

,
Noun.
One who has charge of money; as cash-keeper. In a banking institution, the cashier is the officer who superintends the books, payments and receipts of the bank. He also signs or countersigns the notes, and superintends all the transactions, under the order of the directors.

CASHIER

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To dismiss from an office or place of trust, by annulling the commission; to break, as for mal-conduct, and therefore with reproach; as, to cashier an officer of the army.
2.
To dismiss or discard from service or from society.
3.
To reject; to annul or vacate.

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