teller
/ˈtɛlə
/noun
1chiefly North American A person employed to deal with customers' transactions in a bank.But the only jobs they were hiring women for in the bank were tellers and secretaries....
- Inside the bank building, five robbers dressed in black cloaks and Halloween masks upheld a reign of terror over the helpless customers and bank tellers trapped inside.
- The cuts will affect few workers who deal directly with customers, such as tellers, he said.
Synonyms
cashier, bank clerk, clerk
1.1North American A cashpoint machine: the growing use of automatic tellers...
- To my understanding, he is one of those Scholars who know about Banking and about ATM (Automatic tellers machines).
- When you go to the automatic teller machine today, chances are you'll be getting cash out, not putting money in.
- The man, aged in his fifties, was shot in his car by bandits who tried to rob him after a visit to an automatic teller machine.
1.2 historical (In the UK) each of the four officers of the Exchequer responsible for the receipt and payment of moneys.From 1780 to 1834 he held the lucrative sinecure of teller of the Exchequer....
- The Teller of the Exchequer acted as the state cashier.
- It has already been noticed that his Lordship held the lucrative office of Teller of the Exchequer for sixty years.
2A person who tells something: a foul-mouthed teller of lies...
- The teller demonstrated, lying on the ground with hands up and eyes wide for the benefit of Bonnie and her mother.
- And, while a lie has been told, the teller is not yet a liar.
- But Echo was a chatterbox and teller of tales, and many of her stories were lies about the other nymphs and the gods and goddesses.
Synonyms
narrator, raconteur, raconteuse;
storyteller
Australian informal magsman
rare anecdotist, anecdotalist
3A person appointed to count votes, especially in a parliament.The tellers count all the votes any candidate has received....
- Nominations were finalised for the election of a new committee and we were pleased to welcome Mary who came to officiate also two ladies from Perry Street who acted as tellers and counted all the votes.
- Then, three tellers are chosen from among the cardinals, as well as three to bring the ballots of the sick, and three to review the results of the election.
Derivatives
tellership
sense 1.