cashpoint
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See also: cash point
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Genericisation of Cashpoint, originally a registered trademark of Lloyds Bank introduced in 1972,[1] from cash + point.
Noun
[edit]cashpoint (plural cashpoints)
- (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[2]:
- 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.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]automated teller machine — see automated teller machine
References
[edit]- ^ “Happy 40th Birthday to the modern day cash machine”, in IBM[1], 2012 December 11, archived from the original on 2014-02-02