cash register


noun

a business machine that indicates to customers the amounts of individual sales, has a money drawer from which to make change, records and totals receipts, and may automatically calculate the change due.
Also called sales register.

Origin of cash register

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Definition for sales register (2 of 2)

sales register

noun

British Dictionary definitions for sales register

cash register

noun

a till with a keyboard that operates a mechanism for displaying and adding the amounts of cash received in individual sales