cash register

Example Sentences

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The viral dust-up is helping McDonald’s where it counts—at the cash register.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

The car business is the cash register that funds the empire.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026

Ding goes the bell, and ding-ding goes the cash register in Jim’s head.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

“We have seen cockroaches run around the cash register and they have been found dead in the kitchen,” the complaint read.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025

She would show the clerk by the cash register the box when she paid for it, and he would never know she'd taken it off the shelf herself.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals