cash register
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
When I arrived at the store, nobody was there except a lady at the front cash register.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
