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What's the difference between Cash Dispensers (CDs) and Automated Teller Machines (ATMs)?
May 10, 2015 9:15 AM
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I would say that the cash dispenser is the PART of the ATM machine that actually dispenses the cash. In our supermarket, there are "self-checkout" machines where you scan and bag your groceries yourself. Often you pay with a credit or debit card, and you have the option of getting a small amount of cash back--you can buy $32 worth of groceries, ask for $10 cash back, and have $42 charged to your card. The $10 is dispensed by the machine. Thus, this machine is NOT an ATM machine, but, like an ATM machine, it HAS a cash dispenser.
May 10, 2015
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They refer to the same thing. CD usually refers to "compact disc" and we do not use it to refer to cash dispensers in the UK
May 10, 2015
They are the same: "im just goint to the cast dispenser/atm" However Cds are so ething else
May 10, 2015
In the United States, as noted by others, "CD" NEVER means "cash dispenser." It means one of two very different things: --a "certificate of deposit," a kind of bank account that pays higher interest but puts restrictions on when you can withdraw money; --a "compact disk," the shiny polycarbonate disk with digital music on it.
May 10, 2015
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