business machine

American  

noun

1. a machine for expediting clerical work, as a tabulator or adding machine.

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Example Sentences

Friends said Hackman came to cherish the simpler life away from paparazzi and hype of the show business machine.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025

This remarkable business machine, offering 350 million items for sale, is fast approaching the point where it can claim nearly every household in America as a customer.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2017

Or should it be a cold, lean, mean, business machine, a device with more power than heart, optimized to let you get your work done as quickly and cheaply as possible?

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2014

However, it was priced and sold as a business machine, and was more robust than Dell's consumer-grade equivalent, the Inspiron 600M.

From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2012

Something was about to snap in the general business machine.

From A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States by Juglar, Clément