Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shopkeeper's drawer for the keeping of money received or used in the course of business; a till.
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Examples
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But in getting home I in some way lost the key of the money-drawer.
How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time Rosalind Goforth
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She opened the money-drawer, and it was so full that she could hardly pull it out.
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She was summoned from behind the counter, where she presided at the money-drawer, and presented to me as Madame Jourdain.
The Holladay Case A Tale Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917
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After that he often took things from your dress-pockets and money-drawer, and it was easy for him to slip in behind the counters at the stores to help himself, for you always took his part and shielded him; and you never taught him that he must be true to his wife.
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At the village grocery he often slipped behind the counter and took articles for which he did not pay, and finally he visited the combination money-drawer.
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With this she swept Rod's solitary quarter into the money-drawer, and turned to wait on another customer.
Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy Kirk Munroe 1890
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He does not himself make change, for it would not do to have so many having access to the money-drawer.
The Cash Boy 1889
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Mr. Parlin had found, on going to his money-drawer, that he had lost ninety dollars.
Little Grandfather Sophie May 1869
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Willy felt in the account-book for the key, then glided along to the money-drawer and opened it.
Little Grandfather Sophie May 1869
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The money-drawer in many a mercantile house will this year mysteriously spring a leak.
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