cash register

noun

1. a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due.

cash register

noun

1. a till with a keyboard that operates a mechanism for displaying and adding the amounts of cash received in individual sales

Word History and Origins

Origin of cash register¹

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80