to cashier
2
8.6
- verb
- /kæˈʃɪr/
- Jargon
:
expulsar del servicio
- The general decided to cashier the officer for his misconduct during the mission.
- cashiered officer
Examples
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Only when I repaired to my office did I discover I had been cashiered to the post of sub-editor as punishment for my intemperate outburst.
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That resulted in 14 admirals being cashiered and 300 naval aviators driven out of the Navy or their careers terminated.
Blog text (18) -
They'll cashier me or, uh.. ...court martial me, or hang me.
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Who had me cashiered out of the regiment?
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An officer awaiting an attack shall be cashiered.
Fiction book (2001) -
Do you think they're going to imprison us or cashier us, sir?
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It's because several of their number have been cashiered as crooks.
Blog text (32) -
Don't you think he should be cashiered?
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They could have been cashiered with loss of rank if the political class had dared.
Blog text (28) -
And no wonder: during the 1940s, Peron had packed the administrations with Catholic Fascist lawyers, who in turn cashiered many distinguished socialist and liberal academics.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
To stop employing someone, often suddenly as punishment
Antonyms
How Severe
- Formal
6
6.7
- Jargon
2
8.6
70
3.3
- Formal
289
4.2
- Formal
33
6.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cashier as a verb grew from an old military idea of taking someone off the list, coming from an old French word meaning 'to remove'. So to cashier someone is to dismiss them from service in disgrace.