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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cashier/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cashier/#x1)
- A cashier serves 12 customers an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cashier/#x2)
- She paid the cashier 20 dollars for a 14-dollar toy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cashier/#x3)
- How much change should the cashier give? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cashier/#x4)
- The cashier scanned our shopping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cashier/#x5)
- Say thank you to the cashier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cashier/#x6)
- Check your change before you leave the cashier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cashier/#x7)
- The cashier put the money in the till. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cashier/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/5/)
- [In many shops the cashier has to make up missing money, so too much change may come out of their own pay.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/95-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cashier» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cashier/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.