cashiers

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of cashier.

   The supermarket employs dozens of cashiers across its branches.

   Several cashiers counted their drawers at the end of the shift.

   Note

   A regular plural that shares its spelling with a verb. In "the cashiers counted their drawers" it is the noun; in "the tribunal cashiers its officers" it is the present-tense verb. As a noun it covers two jobs: staff who take payments at a till, and the person in charge of a bank's or business's cash. Context, not the plural, tells you which one is meant.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of cashier.

   The tribunal cashiers officers who betray their oath of service.

   If the inquiry confirms the charges, the navy cashiers the captain without further delay.

   Note

   The present-tense form of a verb with two very different lives. With an object it means to dismiss someone from service, especially an officer, a use now archaic. It can also mean, more loosely, to discard or annul something. Without an object it means to work at a till: she cashiers on weekends. So watch for the object. A person who cashiers someone removes them; a person who simply cashiers is describing a job.

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