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

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 viral dust-up is helping McDonald’s where it counts—at the cash register.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Now they’re changing the currency on the cash register.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 16, 2025

They will deliver packages for Amazon or man a supermarket cash register to pay their bills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

An older woman stands behind the cash register, ringing up customers and snapping paper bags open to stuff them with purchases.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi