cashier

/kæˈʃɪər/

/kæˈʃɪə/

Other forms: cashiered; cashiers; cashiering

A cashier is someone who works at a store ringing up people's purchases. Most cashiers use a cash register for keeping money and making change.

Fast food restaurants, grocery stores, and book shops all hire cashiers to scan purchases or manually enter their prices into a register, process the customer's payment, and put the items in bags. In Britain, you can also call a bank teller a cashier. The word is from the Middle French caissier, "treasurer," which comes from caisse, "money box."

Definitions of cashier

1. noun

   a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant)
   type of:

   individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

   a human being
2. noun

   an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
   synonyms: bank clerk, teller

   type of:

   banker

   a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
3. verb

   discard or do away with
   “cashier the literal sense of this word”

   type of:

   abolish, get rid of

   do away with
4. verb

   discharge with dishonor, as in the army
   type of:

   discharge, free

   free from obligations or duties