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cashpoint

cashpoint noun: an automated teller machine.

Noun

cashpoint (plural cashpoints)

  1. (Ireland, UK) An automated teller machine.
    • 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.2009 May 12, Alan Travis, “Gordon Brown urges police to walk people home from cashpoint”, in The Guardian

Forms of cashpoint

pluralcashpoints
alternative formcash point

Origin of cashpoint

A genericization of Cashpoint, originally a registered trademark of Lloyds Bank introduced in 1972, from cash + point.

Questions about cashpoint

What does cashpoint mean?
Cashpoint means an automated teller machine.
What part of speech is cashpoint?
Cashpoint is a noun.
What is the plural of cashpoint?
The plural of cashpoint is cashpoints.

Words near cashpoint in the dictionary

  1. cashola
  2. cashoo
  3. cashoos
  4. cashout
  5. cashouts
  6. cashpoint
  7. cashpoints
  8. cashspiel
  9. cashspiels
  10. cashtag
  11. cashtags

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