A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.
cash register in British English
noun
a till with a keyboard that operates a mechanism for displaying and adding the amounts of cash received in individual sales
cash register in American English
US
a business machine, usually with a money drawer, used to register visibly the amount of each sale: receipts may be recorded and totaled on tapes
cash register in Retail
(kæʃ rɛdʒɪstər)
Word forms: (regular plural) cash registers
noun
(Retail: Payment technology)
A cash register is a machine on which sales are rung up and recorded, usually with a drawer containing money for use in making changefor customers who pay in cash.
If the sale is by cash or check, the cashier rings it up on the cash register and gives change.
By adding the beginning cash to the daily sales figure, a retailer will know exactlyhow much money should be in the cash register at any given time.
A cash register is a machine on which sales are rung up and recorded, usually with a drawer containingmoney for use in making change for customers who pay in cash.
cash
Examples of 'cash register' in a sentence
cash register
`She dropped her flashlight into the drawer under the cash register and reached for the telephone.
MacLeod, Charlotte SOMETHING IN THE WATER (2002)
The customer began walking away with her carrier bags and Rose approached the cash register.
Cathy Kelly JUST BETWEEN US (2002)
Lucivee stood stunned for a second or two, then raced for the telephone that stood next to the cash register.
MacLeod, Charlotte SOMETHING IN THE WATER (2002)
The second thing she noticed was a fat gray cat sleeping on the counter by the cash register.
Isobel Bird CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 1: SO MOTE IT BE (2002)
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cash register
British English: cash register /kæʃ ˈrɛdʒɪstə/ NOUN
A cash register is a machine in a shop, pub, or restaurant that is used to add up and record how much money people pay, and in which the money is kept.