cash register
Example Sentences
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The car business is the cash register that funds the empire.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026
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
Ding goes the bell, and ding-ding goes the cash register in Jim’s head.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Through his cousin Sony, who resides in a nearby halfway house and obsesses about the Civil War, Hai is hired by Home Market, where he scrubs counters and toilets and works the cash register.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025
It’s the vegetarian diner a couple of blocks from the church, the place with chill music, hemp bagels and petitions at the cash register.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
