Cashier English
- A cashier is a person who customers pay money to or get money from in places such as shops or banks. Synonyms: teller, accountant, clerk, treasurer More Synonyms of cashier 2. Verb usually passive If a person in the armed forces is cashiered, he or she is forced to.
- Someone whose job is to take payments from customers or give out money in a store, bank, etc.: She started as a cashier making $6.50 an hour, then moved up to customer service manager, making $7.65.
Speaking English
Break 'cashier' down into sounds: KA + SHEER - say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them. Record yourself saying 'cashier' in full sentences, then watch yourself and listen. You'll be able to mark your mistakes quite easily. Look up tutorials on Youtube on how to pronounce 'cashier'.
English Phrases For Cashiers
Here are some common expressions that cashiers use. It is a good idea to become familiar with them.
Will this be cash or charge?
Is this going to be credit or debt?
Is there any thing else I can help you with today?
These items are on sale and/or not on sale?
Do you have 33 cents?
OK, that will be 23.45 dollars and 45 cents.
OK, that will be 22.33 out of 25.
Here is your change.
Can you please sign here?
May I see a picture ID please, like a drivers license?
May I have your phone number please?
I am sorry there is a problem with your card. Do you have another card?
Do you have any coupons or discount cards?
Do you have a store club card? If no would you like one, it offers all kinds of discounts?
Please swipe your card.
Thank you very much, have a nice day.
I am sorry we do not accept checks.
I need proof of your age, please (if your buying something that you need to be a certain age for).
Would you like a bag?
I Am + Happy To - With Voice/Audio
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Dutchcasseren, kasseren, from Old Frenchcasser(“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.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK)IPA(key): /kəˈʃɪə/
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (UK) - Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Verb[edit]
cashier (third-person singular simple presentcashiers, present participlecashiering, simple past and past participlecashiered)
- (transitive, now rare) To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 34, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes[…], book II, London: […]Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount[…], :
- His ninth Legion having mutined neere unto Placentia, he presently cassiered the same with great ignominie unto it[…].
- 1968, Revilo P. Oliver, “What We Owe Our Parasites” (speech):
- They found an Army officer who had been a military failure until Bernard Baruch promoted him to General, and who in 1945 should have been able to hope for nothing better than that he could escape a court martial and thus avoid being cashiered, if he could prove that all the atrocities and all the sabotage of American interests of which he had been guilty in Europe had been carried out over his protest and under categorical orders from the President.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p.510:
- The Directory had been deregulating the economy since Thermidor; but it had not cashiered the police spies on which the Terror had depended, and these allowed the government to keep abreast of the threat.
- 2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, 402:
- Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.
- (transitive) To discard, put away.
- (transitive) To annul.
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Dutchcassier or Frenchcaissier, from Frenchcaisse.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK)IPA(key): /kaˈʃɪə/
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (UK)
Noun[edit]
cashier (pluralcashiers)
- One who works at a till or receives payments.
- Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.
Hyponyms[edit]
- saraf(early modern Middle East & India), shroff(India, SE & East Asia, esp. in parking lots)
Translations[edit]
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
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Anagrams[edit]
- Archies, cahiers