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

Mr. Moseley worked as a business machine operator and had never been convicted of any crime.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2016

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

And so still another rivet is clinched in the great morale bridge between the business machine and the human units that enable it to function so very well indeed.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward