barcode-reader

plural barcode-readers

1. alternativeAlternative form of barcode reader.

   The series will make much of how it gave us the first glimpses of such breakthroughs as the first breathalyser (way back in 1967), pocket calculators (1971) and the barcode-reader (1983).

   1997 August 3, Robert Matthews, “Tomorrow never comes”, in The Sunday Telegraph, number 1,886, section “Review”, page 4

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   Nobody seriously suggests that navigating the aisles of a supermarket with a barcode-reader in one hand and a wire shopping chariot in the other is a highlight of contemporary civilisation.

   1998 June 13, Dee Siner, “Selling out”, in The Guardian, page 70

   In the IT business they use ‘legacy’ when they mean ‘old’ (probably best not to ask why) and this is how a company that sells barcode-readers described one of their very old systems: A legacy narrowband wireless system that had served its purpose over 10 years but had gone end of life.

   2006, John Humphrys, Beyond Words: How Language Reveals the Way We Live Now, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 7

   I threw myself in to decoding this new and unfamiliar world: one of scanning each label on every item of food to see if I could eat it or not (bewildering, to begin with, but now I do it without even thinking about it, my brain like a barcode-reader).

   2023 March 18, Lizzy Davies, “My food revolution: how I learned to love a gluten-free diet”, in The Guardian, page 19