0 a container or part of a cash register (= a machine for recording sales and keeping money in) in which money is kept in a shop, bank, or other business:
A daily audit trail gives an indication of everytime the cash drawer is opened.
Cash includes all money in the bank, in the cash drawer and in petty cash.
Amy put the cheque in the back compartment of the cash drawer.
Police found the desk clerk knocked unconscious and the cash drawer cleaned out.
He pulled the cash drawer from the till and emptied it of its contents.
Parishioners see the centuries-old church as "an icon of hope," but thieves see it as an open cash drawer.
