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

This preliminary completed, the engineering member of the partnership, Mr. Holden, began an intensive study of the fundamental factors of the business machine that he was to enlarge.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward