coin changer

American  

noun

1. a machine that gives change rapidly, as to a customer, typically operated by a manual keyboard and often used in association with a cash register.

2. a machine that supplies change, as small coins for large or large coins for small, especially for the use of other coin-operated machines.

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Example Sentences

He was obliged to make so many phone calls from public booths that he finally took to wearing a bus driver's coin changer.

From Time Magazine Archive

A subway coin changer, for example, gets $229 a week, while a New York bank clerk earns $164.

From Time Magazine Archive