cashpoint

See also: cash point

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Genericisation of Cashpoint, originally a registered trademark of Lloyds Bank introduced in 1972,[1] from cash +‎ point.

Noun

cashpoint (plural cashpoints)

  1. (British, Ireland, banking) An automated teller machine.
    • 2009 May 12, Alan Travis, “Gordon Brown urges police to walk people home from cashpoint”, in The Guardian‎:
      Gordon Brown today urged police across England and Wales to offer to walk the last mile home with people who feel unsafe after they visit the cashpoint.

Translations
automated teller machine — see automated teller machine

References
  1. “Happy 40th Birthday to the modern day cash machine”, in IBM‎, 2012 December 11, archived from the original on 2014-02-02

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