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teller

teller

58 1.4
A bank worker who handles customers' cash at the counter
  • noun
  • /ˈtɛlər/
translation icon : cajero
  • The teller at the bank helped me deposit my paycheck.
  • a bank teller
  • clerks and bank tellers

Things like, you know, bank tellers, bookkeepers, a lot of middle managers.

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Examples

  • Yeah, it's a teller at the bank.

  • You know how much a bank teller makes a week? - Not much.

  • Like we have a person who works for us and she going through college, she was a teller at a bank.

  • One wants a teller in a time like this.

  • "Would you be able to cash this for me?" she asked the teller at Bay Borough Federal.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Came back heroes and in one piece, and Daddy, he started out here at the bank as a teller.

  • Nicky found out about it from a teller who owed him money.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • She's a teller at the Pan Pacific Bank.

  • On Valentine's Day, the bank teller has a dozen roses delivered to your apartment.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • At the end of the day, the teller balances the cash against the payout tickets.

Synonyms

cashier
vsteller
85 1.0

A person who takes payments in places like shops, banks, or restaurants

is used for receiving and paying out customer money in banks not retail
bank clerk
vsteller
3 2.1

A person who works at a bank and helps customers with money

is limited to receiving and paying out money rather than broader bank tasks
casher
vsteller
1 2.9

A person who handles money and checks for customers at a shop or bank

focuses specifically on cashing checks and cash handling rather than general payments

Compounds

A person who claims to tell the future using cards or palm reading

automatic teller
  • Specialized
2 3.4

A machine outside banks that lets customers use a bank card to take out cash and do simple bank tasks

A machine outside banks that gives cash and does simple bank tasks with a card

A machine that gives you cash from your bank account when you use a bank card and secret number

A machine outside banks that gives cash and lets you do basic banking with a card and a code

How Responsible

treasurer
52 5.0
accountant
212 2.7
teller
58 1.4
cashier
85 1.0

Surface Forms

teller singular
tellers plural

Morphology

teller = tell (semi-transparent) = tell + er

The form is a straightforward agent noun from 'tell', but the occupational meaning 'bank employee handling transactions' is institutionalized and not transparently connected to the common meaning 'to say'.

Etymology

Teller was used for someone who counted and handed out money, from the verb tell meaning 'to count', so a bank teller is the employee who counts and gives customers cash.