cash register

American  

noun

• cash registers
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cash registers
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cash register

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cash register

“Whatever the cash register says at the end of the day is going to Dolly’s passion,” Yearwood said in announcing the tribute.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

She told the relative that she had to go back in because her company had asked her to move money from the cash register into a safe.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Waking up early, pricing items, setting up tables and manning the cash register — all of this is, as you say, labor.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

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 ● Jan. 9, 2026

I head for the cash register, passing Seven and Sekani.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas