billing machine

American  

noun

1. a business machine used to itemize and total customer accounts, produce bills, post account records, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of billing machine

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Essentially, performing such service involves setting up a billing machine and turning the crank. 

From Forbes

Smaller side rooms are quieter, but the best contains a billing machine that attracts traffic from wait staff.

From New York Times

Showstoppers : � A billing machine which takes a roll of blank paper, perforates it, cuts it to size, prints forms in two colors, prints the amounts of the bills, addresses them, and stacks them in neat piles, has every bill up to date at month's end, including sales , on the last day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charles Mattey, then 19 and a commodities clerk, was typing on a billing machine when a body crashed through a skylight and landed in his office.

From Time Magazine Archive