cashier

«cashier» in Mova's school dictionary: a person in a shop, bank or café who takes the money and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cashier, cashiers)

meaning for a pupil

A cashier is a person in a shop, bank or café who takes the money and gives back change. tree →

sense in the lessons

a person in a money story who takes payment and gives change; counts customers served; in everyday life: paying at the checkout, saying thank you, checking your change and receipt; phrases: «pay the cashier», «at the checkout», «cash register» (till)

examples

• The cashier gave him 3 dollars change. tree →
• A cashier serves 12 customers an hour. tree →
• She paid the cashier 20 dollars for a 14-dollar toy. tree →
• How much change should the cashier give? tree →
• The cashier scanned our shopping. tree →
• Say thank you to the cashier. tree →
• Check your change before you leave the cashier. tree →
• The cashier put the money in the till. tree →

note

A person of the story; near «change» it points to money paid minus price. Trap: the change is paid − cost, not cost − paid ($20 − $14 = $6). Pronounced «cash-EER».

In the corpora

• If you get too much change, you tell the cashier and give it back, because that is honest.
• In many shops the cashier has to make up missing money, so too much change may come out of their own pay.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cashier» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.