cash dispensing machine

Meaning

1. 1nouncountable

   a machine, usually outside a bank or in a store, that lets you take out cash from your bank account using a card.

   Grammar: Countable: you can say a cash dispensing machine, two cash dispensing machines.

   Patterns

   • use a cash dispensing machine
   • at a cash dispensing machine
   • cash dispensing machine outside something

   I need to find a cash dispensing machine before the stores close.

   The cash dispensing machine outside the station was out of order.

   She took out fifty dollars from the cash dispensing machine.

Word forms

Common combinations

use a cash dispensing machine

You can use a cash dispensing machine to withdraw money at any time.

cash dispensing machine outside

There's a cash dispensing machine outside the supermarket.

cash dispensing machine is out of order

The cash dispensing machine is out of order, so we'll have to go inside.

at a cash dispensing machine

I'll meet you at the cash dispensing machine in the lobby.

Synonyms and how they differ

ATM

The usual everyday term, especially in American English; it is shorter and more common in speech.

cash machine

Common in British English and slightly less formal than cash dispensing machine.

cashpoint

A British trademark that has become a general term; it is informal and mostly used in the UK.

Word family

dispense verb

To give out something, especially money or medicine.

dispenser noun

A machine or container that gives out something, such as a soap dispenser.

Commonly confused: cash dispensing machine or cash register?

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