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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
teller
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
automatic
▪ In 1979, there were only 1,200 automatic teller machines in Britain, compared with 17,500 now.
▪ In January 1996, McGill disappeared after withdrawing $ 50 from an automatic teller machine.
▪ Along the way, he stopped at a twenty-four-hour Citibank and checked his balance with the automatic teller.
■ NOUN
bank
▪ Chambermaids, cinema usherettes and bank tellers were all in on the act.
▪ One problem for each of the ways a bank teller multiplies by fractions in her job.
▪ Fifty volunteers, bank tellers and others, worked into the late hours of the night to count the collection.
▪ He said bank tellers had been notified of the problem by early Tuesday afternoon through an internal computer network.
▪ Remember Darlene and her staff of confused bank tellers?
▪ In frustration, she quit her cashier job after several months for a more lucrative position as a bank teller.
▪ I loved to watch the bank teller add up my deposit and write it in my little red bank book.
▪ The unluckiest workers: Automated tellers and mergers in the financial-services field are hurting entry-level bank tellers.
fortune
▪ As a keen amateur astronomer I take a dim view of being mistaken for a fortune teller!
▪ They grabbed the blind fortune teller and flung him brutally against the wall of a josh-house.
▪ Nora asks, staring into her teacup like a fortune teller. ` Well, it's leading here, eventually.
▪ It came from the fortune teller.
▪ I shrank back while the fortune teller tottered towards the main street.
machine
▪ In 1979, there were only 1,200 automatic teller machines in Britain, compared with 17,500 now.
▪ In January 1996, McGill disappeared after withdrawing $ 50 from an automatic teller machine.
■ VERB
automate
▪ Later the same day, however, a dynamite bomb exploded beside automated teller machines at a bank.
▪ Hours later, a separate bomb exploded beside a row of automated teller machines at a Wells Fargo Bank.
▪ Less need for travelers' checks at many destinations because of the growing availability of automated teller machines worldwide dispensing ready cash.
▪ It will use the revolving loan to provide cash for its automated teller machines outside of Texas.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
natural-born singer/story-teller etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a keen amateur astronomer I take a dim view of being mistaken for a fortune teller!
▪ Bank teller Barclays is in the happy position of exactly the reverse happening.
▪ Ghosts stood behind the tellers at the bank.
▪ He went in to speak to one of the tellers.
▪ In frustration, she quit her cashier job after several months for a more lucrative position as a bank teller.
▪ Remember Darlene and her staff of confused bank tellers?
▪ The tellers began wrapping up the ballots in brown paper and masking tape.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teller

Teller \Tell"er\, n.

  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

  2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king.
    --Cowell.

  3. An employee of a bank who receives money paid in, and pays money out, and makes records of such transactions.

  4. One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
teller

"bank clerk who pays or receives money," late 15c., "person who keeps accounts," agent noun from tell (v.) in its secondary sense of "count, enumerate," which is the primary sense of cognate words in many Germanic languages. Earlier "person who announces or narrates" (c.1300).

Wiktionary
teller

n. 1 A person who tells stories. 2 (context chiefly US English) A bank clerk who receives and pays out money. 3 An automated teller machine. 4 A person who counts the votes in an election.

WordNet
Gazetteer
Teller, AK -- U.S. city in Alaska
Population (2000): 268
Housing Units (2000): 87
Land area (2000): 1.915281 sq. miles (4.960556 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.192732 sq. miles (0.499174 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.108013 sq. miles (5.459730 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75930
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 65.257294 N, 166.353807 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99778
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Teller, AK
Teller
Teller -- U.S. County in Colorado
Population (2000): 20555
Housing Units (2000): 10362
Land area (2000): 557.062542 sq. miles (1442.785299 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.892872 sq. miles (4.902515 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 558.955414 sq. miles (1447.687814 sq. km)
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 38.912363 N, 105.156719 W
Headwords:
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Teller, CO
Teller County
Teller County, CO
Wikipedia
Teller

Teller may refer to:

  • Teller (surname)
  • Teller (magician), one half of the duo Penn & Teller
  • Bank teller
    • Automated teller machine
  • Teller (elections)
  • Teller, Alaska
  • Teller County, Colorado
  • Teller Amendment
  • Teller mine
Teller (elections)

A teller is a person who counts the votes in an election, vote, referendum or poll. Tellers are also known as scrutineers, poll-watchers, challengers or checkers.

They should be distinguished from polling agents and counting agents who officially represent candidates.

Teller (magician)

Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller, February 14, 1948) is an American magician, illusionist, actor, comedian, writer, director and half of the comedy magic duo Penn & Teller, along with Penn Jillette. Teller usually does not speak during performances. He is an atheist, debunker, skeptic, and a fellow of the Cato Institute (a free market libertarian think tank that also lists Jillette as a fellow), an organization which featured prominently in the duo's Showtime television series Bullshit!. Teller legally changed his name from "Raymond Joseph Teller" to the mononym "Teller", and possesses a United States passport issued in that name.

Teller (surname)

Teller is the name of:

  • Wilhelm Abraham Teller (1734–1804), a German Protestant theologian
  • Henry M. Teller (1830–1914), a US politician
  • Leopold Teller (1844–1908), a Hungarian actor
  • Edward Teller (1908, Budapest – 2003), a Hungarian-US nuclear physicist known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb"
  • Ludwig Teller (1911, Manhattan – 1965), a US Naval lieutenant and political figure
  • Teller (magician) (born Raymond Joseph Teller, in 1948, Philadelphia), a US magician, a member of the comedy and magic duo " Penn and Teller"
  • Janne Teller (born 1964), a Danish author
  • Juergen Teller (born 1964), a German photographer
  • Miles Teller (born 1987), an American actor

Usage examples of "teller".

She looked around the bank, at the tellers watching their exchange, at the interested faces of the people standing in line, to Billie staring intently.

A journeywoman teller of news, Marghe translated, though obviously with some ritual function.

What you are then, to me and the average mind, is a mixture of clairvoyants, palmists, fortune tellers and aloof mystics.

Ptolemy, the inaction and traditionalism of the Arabs, and the elaborate falsities of story tellers, who, in the absence of real knowledge, had a grand opening for terrible fairy tales.

Some of the best were right here at Teller, including teams from the Institute itself, Harcourt Biosciences, and Nomura PharmaTech.

She could have spoken to Kelly through the very chairs and tables themselves, but doing so always produced a harsh, slightly inhuman sound that reminded them both of the voice of the Abacus, the Teller, and the other free converts who worked at the office.

And clerks on old-fashioned high stools at tall Dickensian teller desks, snooping on all they surveyed.

Teller, a man who likely served at least part of the lengthy apprenticeship with Lapin, a mage of note in the history of mages.

It seems most probable that Lapin died before Teller had completed his studies.

Ferret was a teller in the Middletown Trust Company, the bank situated in the center of the block he had noticed on his first day in town.

But if Teller is right, then it was unconscionable of him not to have disclosed the purported discovery to the affected parties - the citizens and leaders of his nation and the world.

Faubourg Saint-Germain there lived an old woman, named La Voisin, who followed the calling of teller of fortunes and summoner of spirits, and she, assisted by her accomplices Le Sage and Le Vigoureux, managed to alarm and astonish people who were by no means to be considered weak or superstitious.

Allerdyke, from long training in business habits, was a good teller of a plain and straightforward tale: Appleyard, for the same reason, was a good listener.

The teller of the restaurant creates it to have seen raise the Blazer with a woman who had stopped to request a coffee and a sandwich.

The story grew grander each time, until according to the teller, an entire brigade of ogres had been routed.