cashiering

USka-SHEER-ing/kæˈʃɪɹɪŋ/UKkuh-SHEER-ing/kəˈʃɪəɹɪŋ/

2 meanings of cashiering

1
noununcountable
The dismissal of a person from service, especially the formal expulsion of an officer from the military.
Her cashiering came as a shock to the entire regiment.
The board recommended cashiering as the only fitting punishment for the breach of trust.
Similardismissal, discharge, expulsion
Note
The gerund has settled into a noun, and a countable one: a purge can leave a string of cashierings behind it. It carries only the dismissal meaning, never the till work that the participle can also name. Because the dismissal verb is itself archaic, the noun keeps a formal, old-fashioned ring that sits most naturally in talk of regiments, boards and disciplinary rulings.
2
verb
Present participle of cashier.
The tribunal is cashiering officers at an unprecedented rate this year.
By cashiering its corrupt commanders, the new regime hoped to restore discipline.
Note
One spelling does two quite different jobs. With an object, it is the participle of the archaic verb meaning to dismiss from service, which can also stretch to discarding something or annulling it: cashiering officers, cashiering a corrupt commander. Without an object, it belongs to the till, and someone cashiering at a shop is simply taking payments. The object is the reliable clue: the dismissal always has someone on the receiving end, while the shop work needs no one.

cashiering is a form of cashier

cashier, verb: To work at a till taking payments from customers, as one's job. Full entry

Forms: cashiercashiers he/she/itcashiering -ing formcashiered past tense, past participle
Spelling: cashier → cashiering: add -ing

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