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Meaning of Teller | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈtɛlə

Definitions

  1. A person who tells stories.
  2. A surname.
  3. A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.
    US
  4. A tiny city in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States, named after Henry M. Teller.
  5. A cashier at any place of business.
  6. Synonym of automated teller machine.
  7. A person who counts the votes in an election.

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Examples

“Sukumar was thirty years old, four years into his bank job, where he’d moved up to the role of teller, turning up to work on time every day, counting the money, making the deposits, entering in the ledger, filing the reports.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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