business machine

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Unlike many of his colleagues and certainly his superiors at PARC, he had a vision of the PC as a consumer appliance, not merely a business machine.

From Los Angeles Times

China’s giant and tireless business machine came to a sudden halt last week.

From New York Times

And despite the ports, the US version is strictly Wi-Fi — while the European version offers an integrated LTE option, which is surprising in a laptop being pushed as a business machine.

From The Verge

Vivian Caple, 90, a business machine operator at what then was First Union Bank in Alexandria, Va., for 18 years before retiring in 1989, died Nov. 25 at a rehabilitation center in Alexandria.

From Washington Post

When advertisers see how the technology can be applied to solve familiar problems, “it’ll take the boogieman factor out of the blockchain and everyone will instead focus on the quality-of-life improvement possible,” said Josh Herman, global integrated marketing leader at Kimberly-Clark Corp. , one of the members of a blockchain consortium at International Business Machine Corp.’s digital marketing agency, iX.

From The Wall Street Journal