Definition of "cash register" [cash register]

• A machine that tabulates the amount of sales transactions, makes a permanent and cumulative record of them, and has a drawer in which cash can be kept. (noun)

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• "In addition, says Babrowski, “a modification to our cash register system allows us to read in the kitchen what is being sold at the moment of sale.”"
• "I gestured to the ponytailed, referee-shirted salesgirl who had been watching us with no interest whatsoever from behind the cash register even though we were the only customers in the store."
• "I stood near the cash register and stole bite after bite from another silver tray, a large, filigreed one that sat in front of the cash register, loaded to tumbling with samples of baklava, almond pastries, and crumbly bits of cookie-like things soaked in rosewater."