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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Award endorsements, especially Tonys, help ring the cash register.
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Noah Eisenberg, New York Daily News, 11 May 2024
Officers responded to the gas station on Saturday just before 10 p.m. on the report of a robbery and learned that a man entered the store and demanded the cash register from the clerk, police said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2024
The birds also learned to count out the proper number of vocalizations when cued by sounds, with a guitar chord eliciting a single caw, a cash register eliciting two, a drum roll signaling three, and a frequency sweep calling for four.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024
Police had also responded to a report of a fight and robbery at a nearby McDonald’s, where a small crowd tried to force open cash registers, most of which was captured by cellphones and posted on social media.
—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
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Noah Eisenberg, New York Daily News, 11 May 2024
Officers responded to the gas station on Saturday just before 10 p.m. on the report of a robbery and learned that a man entered the store and demanded the cash register from the clerk, police said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2024
The birds also learned to count out the proper number of vocalizations when cued by sounds, with a guitar chord eliciting a single caw, a cash register eliciting two, a drum roll signaling three, and a frequency sweep calling for four.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 5 June 2024
Police had also responded to a report of a fight and robbery at a nearby McDonald’s, where a small crowd tried to force open cash registers, most of which was captured by cellphones and posted on social media.
—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
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“Cash register.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cash%20register. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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