teller

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   A cashier at any place of business.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   someone who tells a story

4. 4
   noun

   an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money

5. 5
   noun

   an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)

6. 6
   noun

   A person who tells stories.

7. 7
   noun

   Synonym of automated teller machine.

8. 8
   noun

   A person who counts the votes in an election.

Etymology

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