cashier

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /kəˈʃɪə/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /kæˈʃir/

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Noun

Singular cashier

Plural cashiers

A cashier

1. (countable) A cashier is a worker who collects money and gives out change at a store or bank.

   My first job was as a cashier at a new grocery store in town.

   The cashier took my twenty and gave me back $2.25 change.

Verb

Plain form cashier

Third-person singular cashiers

Past tense cashiered

Past participle cashiered

Present participle cashiering

1. (transitive) (usually passive) If an officer gets cashiered, they are forced to leave the armed forces because they have done something wrong.

   He was cashiered from the army for failing a drug test.

Related words

• cash