cash registernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkæʃ ˌredʒ.ɪ.stər/us/ˈkæʃ ˌredʒ.ɪ.stɚ/a machine in a shop or other business that records sales and into which money received is put
Examples from literature
- It's how good ideas happen in business—people working at the cash register figure stuff out, and they tell their bosses.
- The drawer of the cash register shot out with a metallic clang.
- Then he turned to the cash register, and punched up five cents, and began to pull money out of the drawer.
- We have the cash register to educate our clerks into pure and honest character, and the souls of conductors can be seen being nurtured, mile after mile, by fare-recorders.