Definitions
discharge with dishonor, as in the army
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“His ninth Legion having mutined neere unto Placentia, he presently cassiered the same with great ignominie unto it[…].”
“The recent cashiering for disobedience of orders of a Major-General who is claimed, we know not with what truth, to be of the "conservative" order, has raised this outcry louder and fiercer than ever.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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