different between displace vs cashier

English

Etymology

From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?s/, /d?z?ple?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Verb

displace (third-person singular simple present displaces, present participle displacing, simple past and past participle displaced)

1. To put out of place; to disarrange.
2. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
3. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
4. To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.

   Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.

5. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
6. (psychology) to repress
   • Megan Garber (2017) , “The Case for Shyness”, in The Atlantic?^[1]: “Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.”

Derived terms

• displacement
• displacive
• displaceable

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From Dutch casseren, kasseren, from Old French casser (“to break (up)”). During a ceremonial cashiering of a ranking military officer, the breakup was often symbolized dramatically by literally breaking the officer’s sword.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?????/

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

cashier (third-person singular simple present cashiers, present participle cashiering, simple past and past participle cashiered)

1. (transitive, now rare) To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.
   • 1968, Revilo P. Oliver, “What We Owe Our Parasites” (speech):

     They found an Army officer who had been a military failure until Bernard Baruch promoted him to General, and who in 1945 should have been able to hope for nothing better than that he could escape a court martial and thus avoid being cashiered, if he could prove that all the atrocities and all the sabotage of American interests of which he had been guilty in Europe had been carried out over his protest and under categorical orders from the President.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p.510:

     The Directory had been deregulating the economy since Thermidor; but it had not cashiered the police spies on which the Terror had depended, and these allowed the government to keep abreast of the threat.

   • 2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, 402:

     Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.

2. (transitive) To discard, put away.
3. (transitive) To annul.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Dutch cassier or French caissier, from French caisse.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ka????/, /?ka???/

Pronunciation

Noun

cashier (plural cashiers)

1. One who works at a till or receives payments.
2. Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.

Hyponyms

• saraf (early modern Middle East & India), shroff (India, SE & East Asia, esp. in parking lots)

Translations

Verb

cashier (third-person singular simple present cashiers, present participle cashiering, simple past and past participle cashiered)

1. To work as a cashier (at a till or receiving payment)

Anagrams

• Archies, Raiches, cahiers