cash register

American  

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.

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cash register British  

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of cash register

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

At the cash register, I glance out at the car.

From Literature

The car business is the cash register that funds the empire.

From MarketWatch

The finish line isn’t moral resolution, but the banality of the cash register: a product governed where it matters most, at the point of sale.

From The Wall Street Journal

She sat on the stool beside him, turning on the cash register and pounding her pin number into the screen, trying not to look too irritated.

From Literature

The project was commissioned as part of the La Plaza shopping complex by Julia Carnell, the heiress to a national cash register empire based in Dayton, Ohio.

From Los Angeles Times