cash register
Example Sentences
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Waking up early, pricing items, setting up tables and manning the cash register — all of this is, as you say, labor.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
They agreed to pay half a cent more at the cash register to fund buses, trains and pothole fillings in 2016.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
As a man in his 60s, I’ve been to my share of bereavement services—but only one took place in front of a cash register.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
The car business is the cash register that funds the empire.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026
Still at meal-times the place was usually full and he saw hundreds of acquaintances every day as he stood guard behind the cash register.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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