From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcassette recordercasˈsette reˌcorder noun [countable] DLAPMa piece of electrical equipment used for recording sound or for playing cassettes on SYN tape recorder
Examples from the Corpus
cassette recorder• The Spectrum +2, with its built-in cassette recorder, simply isn't worth £150.• Earlier this year, I set my cassette recorder to tape Bach's Magnificat in D from an original recording.• The aid that we are most likely to use for the same reasons as video is the audio tape or cassette recorder.• Whacks a tape into the cassette recorder.• From the rattles and clunks it's difficult to tell what's happening, but I switch on the cassette recorder in case. 