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cashier

[ka-sheer] / kæˈʃɪər /




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She comes back in to say something animatedly to the cashier.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

"It was horrible, like nothing we ever experienced. My daughter was trapped in school. Thank God we are okay," Juana Alveo, a 38-year-old cashier at a store in the central city of Penonome told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

By the second day, one friend was walking arm-in-arm toward the cinnamon bread grist mill with its cashier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

He earns $33 an hour as a Costco cashier, and he’s retiring a millionaire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Standing at the checkout counter with an armload of sock monkeys, I told the cashier, "These are for a piece I'm working on. It's a performance commissioned by the art museum. I'm an artist."

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

At a Co-op store in London, the BBC is shown staff wearing body cams, CCTV, a one-way system with gates and screens protecting cashiers from potential offenders.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Shoppers stockpiled the discounts because cashiers would usually accept them even if they expired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Shoppers and cashiers alike are left navigating this maze, unsure whether their next purchase will pass or fail.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026

Every one of the cashiers had a banking degree, and some of the kitchen workers had engineering Ph.D.s.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

I start up conversations in lines and on the bus and with cashiers.

From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman

Since taking power in 2012, Xi has packed the leadership with loyalists, sidelined subordinates who owed their rise to predecessors and even cashiered some of his own protégés.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

That’s what Britain did in World War I when it cashiered H.H.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

Maybe I wouldn’t have been cashiered out of the computer lab because my 3-year-old was “banging on a keyboard.”

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2022

Lauer seems superficially to be the inspiration for Steve Carell’s cashiered breakfast show cohost on Apple TV+'s “The Morning Show,” currently nominated for a clutch of Emmys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2020

That gardener deserves to be cashiered for not getting a move on him in time to catch that man, even if he did think he'd only been swiping flowers.

From The Thousandth Woman by Ernest W. Hornung

The cashiering of Caldwell is notable because of his relationship with Hegseth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

From students to adults, volunteers staff customer service, cashiering, security and even help to build display booths.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

To a secular layman such as me that sounds like cashiering a general while allowing him to keep his epaulets and continue to run your war.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2016

But donors will hold off cashiering Bush, even if he finishes in the middle of the New Hampshire pack.

From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2016

“This job is so much better than cashiering in the grocery store.”

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes


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