cash register

noun

1. a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due.

cash register

noun

1. a till with a keyboard that operates a mechanism for displaying and adding the amounts of cash received in individual sales

Word History and Origins

Origin of cash register¹

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

A second perpetrator pulled $475 from the cash register before the first ripped the gas station’s phone from the counter and smashed it.

From Washington Post

This progressed into taking funds by quietly approaching a cash register, opening it himself, taking a handful of cash.

From The Daily Beast

It’s small-size Go stores use computer vision technology to track shoppers through the stores so they can walk out with their items without stopping at a cash register.

From Washington Post

AB 1003If I were to steal $950 out of a business’s cash register or from someone’s pocket, I’d be prosecuted for theft.

From Voice of San Diego

In Corpus Christi, De Los Santos says H-E-B has been proactive about placing protective barriers at cash registers and allowing workers ample time off if they feel sick.

From Washington Post

Dressed entirely in beige, working the A-1 cash register, it was clear that Walt no longer wanted to be Heisenberg.

From The Daily Beast

This is actually quite common in retail; consulting firms collect cash register data, and then sell data on, well, what's selling.

From The Daily Beast

As I paid my check, my eye fell on a handout beside the cash register.

From The Daily Beast

Several years later, Moore recalls, he was attacked by a fellow employee while working the cash register at a retail store.

From The Daily Beast

Standing by the cash register, she had no trouble as doubling as a salesgirl herself.

From The Daily Beast

The real cause of his concern being, I suspected, the infrequency with which his cash register tinkled.

From Project Gutenberg

With apprehension rippling down his spine, Dave Miller reached across the cash register and touched the woman on the cheek.

From Project Gutenberg

Upon impulse she quietly asked the man behind the cash register if he knew the driver.

From Project Gutenberg

What we are blessedly free from is the red-plush Wellsian illusionism, and the click of Mr. Bennett's cash-register finish.

From Project Gutenberg

The ding of her husband's cash register and the click of her dangle bag mark the systole and diastole of married life.

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