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Revision as of 14:53, 14 March 2024

See also: Teller, and tełłer

English

Etymology

From Middle English tellere (“one who counts or enumerates; one who recounts or relates; teller”), equivalent to tell (verb) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: tell‧er

Noun

teller (plural tellers)

  1. A person who tells stories.
  2. (banking, chiefly US) A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.
    Synonym: cashier
  3. (more generally) A cashier at any place of business.
    • 2007, Joseph T. Wells, Corporate Fraud Handbook: Prevention and Detection, page 107:
      In the case discussed above, for example, the employee who stole money did so by waiting until another teller was on break, then logging on to that teller's register, ringing a “no sale,” and taking the cash.
    • 2013, Alastair Henry, Awakening in the Northwest Territories:
      The young femail teller fingered the prices into the cash register at great speed with great dexterity while simultaneously holding a conversation with the teller in the next lane.
    • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 60:
      The main street was shuttered; the only sign of life she detected was behind the window of the petrol station, where the teller was counting the day's cash balance into the till.
  4. (banking) Synonym of automated teller machine
    Synonyms: cash machine, ATM
  5. A person who counts the votes in an election.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Crimean Tatar

Noun

teller

  1. nominative plural of tel

Dutch

Etymology

From tellen +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

teller m (plural tellers, diminutive tellertje n)

  1. (mathematics) numerator (the number or expression written above the line in a fraction)
  2. someone who counts
  3. any device that displays numerical information such as a Geiger counter or a tachometer

Antonyms

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: pembilang (“(mathematics) numerator”) (semantic loan)
  • → Indonesian: teller (“someone who counts”)

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English teller, from Middle English tellere (“one who counts or enumerates; one who recounts or relates; teller”). Standard spelling retain double l to avoid confusion with word teler.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tel‧ler

Noun

teller (first-person possessive tellerku, second-person possessive tellermu, third-person possessive tellernya)

  1. (banking) A bank clerk who receives and pays out money; a teller.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From the verb telle.

Noun

teller m (definite singular telleren, indefinite plural tellere, definite plural tellerne)

  1. (arithmetic) numerator (the number or expression written above the line in a fraction)
Antonyms
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Verb

teller

  1. present tense of telle

References

Turkish

Noun

teller

  1. nominative plural of tel
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