Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ATM.
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- noun UK, banking An
automated teller machine .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The claims supplement revenue from other criminal activities such as cashpoint fraud, pickpocketing and shoplifting.
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It seems the policy of, “marching offenders to the cashpoint,” has finally reached the front line.
Complete Utter Shambles « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Housing bubbles, both in Europe and the US, have been looked upon as cashpoint machines, regardless of the corrosive social cost.
It's not just our leaders who are in a crisis. Democracy itself is failing | Peter Beaumont 2011
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We have also included various new rules, such as stipulating that fundraisers should not stand within three metres of a cashpoint, and incorporating rules that association members should already abide by, such as the "three-step rule", which sets out how many steps a fundraiser can take when trying to engage a passerby.
Street fundraisers should not invade your personal space – official 2011
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On arrival, she has to suffer her husband dressing like darts player Phil "the Power" Taylor, blokeishly "using the cashpoint".
If you sleep with a man, trust him to take the pill | Barbara Ellen 2011
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This first phase will be followed up and expanded next year with the installation of the innovative FullGuard Personal Protective RouteMaster Tubes, concrete tunnels from every front door in the land to the nearest supermarket, pub, cashpoint, football ground, phone box and massage parlour.
What A Bunch Of Plonkers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Being robbed is one thing, being robbed by a cashpoint is quite another.
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The Clarity credit card is not only the cheapest credit card for cash withdrawals abroad but is cheaper than most standard debit cards, which charge £3 or 3% for a cashpoint withdrawal.
Travel cash gets a lot cheaper with Halifax credit card 2010
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The camera in a cashpoint machine works on a direct line of sight.
Venom Joan Brady 2010
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His song Easy, you may recall, was the soundtrack to a commercial in which some young chap with fashionably ruffled hair, living in a trendy riverside warehouse-style property, strolls down to a cashpoint with his bank card on a Sunday morning, and smilingly withdraws the wherewithal to fuel his young urban professional lifestyle.
Why Alan Shearer could find plum job as a behavioural geneticist 2010
bilby commented on the word cashpoint
ATM seems to be in general use in Britain but I did have heard a few people saying this.
February 4, 2009
yarb commented on the word cashpoint
Yeah, I think ATM is gradually usurping this and cash machine.
February 5, 2009