cash register
noun
: a business machine that usually has a money drawer, indicates the amount of each sale, and records the amount of money received
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The interactive cash register uses a toy credit card, coins, a scanner, and a number pad to teach everything from shopping phrases to food, numbers, and songs.
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Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 27 June 2025
The South Pasadena, Calif., hardware store thrummed with the usual rhythms of a Wednesday night: customers browsing shelves, cash registers chiming, the low hum of fluorescent lights overhead.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 4 June 2025
With only quarters in circulation, cash registers would speed up.
—David Bogert, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 May 2025
Police said that a man entered the restaurant at about 7:35 p.m. on May 22 and produced a knife before taking money from the cash register and fleeing.
—Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
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Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 27 June 2025
The South Pasadena, Calif., hardware store thrummed with the usual rhythms of a Wednesday night: customers browsing shelves, cash registers chiming, the low hum of fluorescent lights overhead.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 4 June 2025
With only quarters in circulation, cash registers would speed up.
—David Bogert, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 May 2025
Police said that a man entered the restaurant at about 7:35 p.m. on May 22 and produced a knife before taking money from the cash register and fleeing.
—Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for cash register
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“Cash register.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cash%20register. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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