cash register

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noun

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.

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cash mob, cash money, cash on delivery, cash on the barrelhead, cash ratio, cash register, cash up, cash value, cash-and-carry, cash-book, cash-for-questions

Origin of cash register

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Also called sales register.

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Examples from the Web for cash register

He took it, together with the mask, and sidled over to the cash-register.
Hearts and Masks|Harold MacGrath
Much silver goeth by the till the cash-register knoweth not of.
The Complete Cynic|Oliver Herford
What we are blessedly free from is the red-plush Wellsian illusionism, and the click of Mr. Bennett's cash-register finish.
Instigations|Ezra Pound
Hurstwood listened to the cash-register ring, and watched the trade for a while.
Sister Carrie|Theodore Dreiser

Ledger and cash-book, with cash-register, kept record of business transacted.
The Negro at Work in New York City|George Edmund Haynes

British Dictionary definitions for cash register

cash register

noun

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

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cash register

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cash register

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