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“Cashiered”?

• schoen 9y ago
  It means 'fired' (maybe more common in English outside the U.S.?). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cashier#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cashier#English
  • ajeet_dhaliwal 9y ago
    I've lived 22 years of my life in the UK and 12 in North America and never heard of this before so I don't think it can be particularly common. I've heard of being 'laid off', 'fired', 'let go', 'terminated', 'made redundant', 'purged', but never this. Based on this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashiering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashiering it might be a military way of saying it so perhaps the poster has some background in that field.
    • abritinthebay 9y ago
      That would make a lot of sense
    • schoen 9y ago
      That's quite possible. I feel like The Economist also uses it, but maybe they're trying to cultivate a retro aesthetic. :-)
    • deleted 9y ago
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    • acchow 9y ago
      I have never heard the usage of this word - I assumed the commenter was inventing a probably-understandable, slightly humorous usage on the fly which I've found to be a fairly common habit among ultra-intelligent people.
  • abritinthebay 9y ago
    I’m English, tho now live in the US, and never heard of it. Appears to be pretty archaic in usage. Interesting!
• Broken_Hippo 9y ago
  I had to look it up as well :)
• lucasverra 9y ago
  Google is your friend : http://bfy.tw/ClnP http://bfy.tw/ClnP