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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of cashier.

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Examples

  • One cop was cashiered from the force because a pickpocket lifted his gun.

    The Lightest-Fingered Crooks in the World « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2007

  • He was cashiered from the Russian army, in which he held a captaincy.

    The Return of Tarzan 1913

  • He was cashiered from the Russian army, in which he held a captaincy.

    Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • Matthews thought that President Bush "cashiered" General Shinseki's remarks about wanting more troops and believed the "idea that these guys are free to think out loud, I thought, has been yet to be proven."

    NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias Rachel Burnett 2010

  • But it says something about Pakistani politics that its most capable diplomat has been cashiered for attempting to uphold civilian and constitutional rule against a military that has repeatedly subverted it.

    A Diplomat of Distinction 2011

  • Then, when cashiered out of the navy after refusing to follow orders which offended his conscience, he is visited by the mysterious benefactor who has shadowed him his entire life, who invites him to join a highly exclusive gentlemen's club, Redking's.

    REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker 2009

  • Finally, in one quick stroke with no time to debate the issue, the king had severed Parmenion from his soldiers and cashiered the old man to guard duty away from the army.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Even before he was cashiered, Belle Jambe Bernadotte nearly let The Iron Marshal get annihilated by a vastly larger Prussian army

    Matthew Yglesias » Kristol Complicates Napoleon Metaphors 2010

  • Even the Democratic treasurer warned that the state couldn't finance its short-term debt with such a risky plan, and Mr. Brown cashiered it.

    As Sacramento Turns 2011

  • Even the Democratic treasurer warned that the state couldn't finance its short-term debt with such a risky plan, and Mr. Brown cashiered it.

    As Sacramento Turns 2011

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  • "to be dismissed from service by the sentence of a court-martial, is said to be cashiered." (citation in list description)

    October 10, 2008