cash machine
noun
British
: a machine that people use to get money from their bank accounts by using a special card
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Alphabet investors had bought a capital-light cash machine, and the plan stacks equity dilution on top of more than $100 billion of debt raised over the past year, including a sterling bond round in February.
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Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Most importantly, this thing is a cash machine even during the offseason.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 3 June 2026
Musk’s lawyers tried to tell the story of a philanthropist whose charity was stolen and turned into a cash machine.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 29 Apr. 2026
While the cable flagship now reaches some 60 million U.S. households, a tally that’s down significantly from around 101 million homes just 15 years ago, the sports unit remains a hyperactive cash machine, generating $17.7 billion in revenue during fiscal year 2025.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 18 Mar. 2026
The ad, released Wednesday, opens with a narrator asking what a burner phone, an expensive pen and a cash machine have in common.
—Joseph Morton, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026
This is something my colleague Jeremy Kahn has written about quite a bit, particularly in the context of Nvidia’s massive cycling cash machine.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
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Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Most importantly, this thing is a cash machine even during the offseason.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 3 June 2026
Musk’s lawyers tried to tell the story of a philanthropist whose charity was stolen and turned into a cash machine.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 29 Apr. 2026
While the cable flagship now reaches some 60 million U.S. households, a tally that’s down significantly from around 101 million homes just 15 years ago, the sports unit remains a hyperactive cash machine, generating $17.7 billion in revenue during fiscal year 2025.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 18 Mar. 2026
The ad, released Wednesday, opens with a narrator asking what a burner phone, an expensive pen and a cash machine have in common.
—Joseph Morton, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026
This is something my colleague Jeremy Kahn has written about quite a bit, particularly in the context of Nvidia’s massive cycling cash machine.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
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“Cash machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cash%20machine. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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