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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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Also called sales register.

Origin of cash register

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Words nearby cash register

cash on the barrelhead, cashoo, cash-out, cashpoint, cash ratio, cash register, cash-strapped, cash up, cash value, casimere, Casimir effect

How to use cash register in a sentence

A second perpetrator pulled $475 from the cash register before the first ripped the gas station’s phone from the counter and smashed it.
A secret algorithm is transforming DNA evidence. This defendant could be the first to scrutinize it.|Justin Jouvenal|July 13, 2021|Washington Post
This progressed into taking funds by quietly approaching a cash register, opening it himself, taking a handful of cash.
He Robbed a Taco Joint With a Toy Water Gun for $264. He Got Life in Prison.|Kate Briquelet|May 31, 2021|The Daily Beast
It’s small-size Go stores use computer vision technology to track shoppers through the stores so they can walk out with their items without stopping at a cash register.
Amazon brings its palm-scanning payment tech to Whole Foods|Rachel Lerman|April 21, 2021|Washington Post
AB 1003If I were to steal $950 out of a business’s cash register or from someone’s pocket, I’d be prosecuted for theft.
Sacramento Report: Gonzalez Measures Loom Large – Again – on ‘Job Killer’ List|Sara Libby|March 26, 2021|Voice of San Diego

In Corpus Christi, De Los Santos says H-E-B has been proactive about placing protective barriers at cash registers and allowing workers ample time off if they feel sick.
Without mask requirements, essential workers in Texas and Mississippi say they feel more vulnerable than ever|Abha Bhattarai|March 5, 2021|Washington Post
Annie Lee Cooper, well played by Winfrey, is shown trying but failing to register to vote.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’|Gary May|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
One that they cannot cash in at the bank to pay for their flats.
One Vogue Cover Doesn’t Solve Fashion’s Big Race Problem|Danielle Belton|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Many dance instructors register their classes at gyms and teach women or men (separately) under the name of aerobics.
Iran’s Becoming a Footloose Nation as Dance Lessons Spread|IranWire|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Nor are we told that she lost her job at a local nursing home after she tried to register to vote in 1964.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’|Gary May|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“They refused to register a case, saying the matter is out of their hands,” he told me.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan|Umar Farooq|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
The “Compañia General de Tabacos” lost about ₱30,000 in cash in addition to the damage done to their offices and property.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
The promoters went his security and put up the cash into the bargain, and he went back to the publishing house victorious.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
His wife had sold her relinquishment on the claim that he had spent thirty-five hundred dollars cash for.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
It was very annoying—more than ever—to the Elder when he was required to put up twenty-five dollars in cash as a retainer.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux

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

Origin of cash register

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