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cash dispenser

British  

noun

  1. Also called: automated teller machine.  a computerized device outside a bank that supplies cash or account information when the user inserts a cash card and keys in an identification number

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There was subsequently some controversy in the complex history of the cash dispenser as to who was its true begetter, though he was certainly first with an operational machine.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2010

Multiple patents were filed, but Mr. Shepherd-Barron’s machine became generally known as the first cash dispenser when it was installed at a bank in a suburb north of London in June 1967.

From New York Times • May 20, 2010

But Mr. Shepherd-Barron acknowledged that, unlike the cash dispenser, it was not working very well.

From New York Times • May 20, 2010

The man credited with inventing the world's first hole-in-the-wall cash dispenser after a "eureka" moment in the bath has died, aged 84, after a short illness.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2010

I make dollar bills spurt out of the cash dispenser and soar through the air.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

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