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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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RELATED WORDS

register, till, cashbox

Nearby words

  1. cash mob,
  2. cash money,
  3. cash on delivery,
  4. cash on the barrelhead,
  5. cash ratio,
  6. cash up,
  7. cash value,
  8. cash, johnny,
  9. cash-and-carry,
  10. cash-book

Origin of cash register

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80
Also called sales register.
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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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