Also 7 cassier, casheer, -ire. [ad. F. caissier treasurer (Cotgr.); in Du. cassier: see CASH and -IER.] One who has charge of the cash of a bank or mercantile firm, paying and receiving money, and keeping the cash account.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, 97. The Cashiers or Prouiditores for lame Souldiours.
1598. B. Jonson, Ev. Man in Hum., II. i. I haue made him my Cashier, And giu’n him, who had none, a surname, Cash.
1617. Moryson, Itin., III. II. iv. 95. They tooke young youths of that Nation [the Dutch] to be their Cassiers.
1705. Vanbrugh, Confed., I. ii. Go to my Cashier, let him give you six and fifty pound.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxiii. (L.). To accept the place of cashier of the excise.
† b. A money-dealer. Obs.
1643. T. Violet, Declar. Bullion, 9. Many Gold-smiths and Casheers of London.
a. 1687. Petty, Pol. Arith., ix. (1691), 110. It was observed by the general consent of Cashiers.
Hence Cashiership.
1800. Lancaster Jrnl., 10 Sept., 2/4. I believe, until all prospects of the Bank Cashiership had failed, you never contemplated entering into the Gospel Ministry.
1884. Graphic, 25 Oct., 422/2. A man once applied to an Italian banker for a cashiership, and was asked to state his qualifications. ‘I have been ten years in prison,’ he said, ‘and so shall not mind being locked up in a room by myself, and having my pockets searched when I go out and come in.’
