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
The project was commissioned as part of the La Plaza shopping complex by Julia Carnell, the heiress to a national cash register empire based in Dayton, Ohio.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
When Patterson first gained control over James Ritty’s 1879 invention, the cash register, he discovered he had a quality product with no demand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025
He filled the gas-tank at the Amoco, and asked the bored woman at the cash register where the best bar in the area was—somewhere that he could get something to eat.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
