cash register
Example Sentences
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Decades before plastic became the default currency at the cash register and Venmo became a verb, pulling out a paper checkbook to pay for weekly groceries was a standard routine in American life.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
The car business is the cash register that funds the empire.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026
The finish line isn’t moral resolution, but the banality of the cash register: a product governed where it matters most, at the point of sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
They will deliver packages for Amazon or man a supermarket cash register to pay their bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
One was from Martin’s, the department store at the Pagoda Mall, where, at best, I’d be stuck behind a cash register all day, swiping cards and saying “Debit or credit?”
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
