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, 8 July 2025
The ship’s list was already so pronounced that the drawer of the café’s cash register was slung open, and the pair were passed by officers and stewards hurrying to their boat stations, their arms out to each side like customers negotiating the tumbling barrel of a fun house.
—Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
The employee opened the cash register and Rosario Lopez took cash from the register drawer.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 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
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Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 8 July 2025
The ship’s list was already so pronounced that the drawer of the café’s cash register was slung open, and the pair were passed by officers and stewards hurrying to their boat stations, their arms out to each side like customers negotiating the tumbling barrel of a fun house.
—Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
The employee opened the cash register and Rosario Lopez took cash from the register drawer.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 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
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 31 Jul. 2025.
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