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teller Definition

teller (telər)

noun

  1. a person who tells (a story, etc.); narrator
  2. a person who counts; specif.,
    1. one who counts votes, as in a legislative body
    2. a bank clerk who pays out or receives money

Teller Definition

Tel·ler (telər)

Teller, Edward 1908-2003; U.S. nuclear physicist, born in Hungary

teller Synonyms

teller

n.

cashier, clerk, bank clerk, bank employee, counting clerk, bank assistant, pay-off man*; see also worker.

teller Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • tale: About a teller of tall tales in the pub.
  • story: There he gained a reputation as a great teller of stories.
  • story: We're called to be salt, called to be light, called to be tellers of the story of Jesus Christ.

Converse of object

  • appoint: In the event of a ballot being held the chairman shall appoint tellers who nevertheless may vote.
  • become: One of the flint knappers becomes a story teller through contact with a woman from outside the community who comes to live with them.
  • give: A robber in Panorama City, Cal. , gave a teller a note saying, " I have a gun.

Adjective modifier

  • automated: Not to use the Card to withdraw funds through the automated teller in excess of the daily limit we from time to time prescribe.
  • automatic: Automatic tellers, too, require programmers and technicians, and their salaries are four times what bank tellers receive.
  • great: He is the greatest story teller in the world!
  • professional: That is what makes storytelling such a powerful art far more important than the final artistic polish of a professional teller.
  • good: To be a good teller, you need to be a good listener.
  • many: The second telling was fast, throwaway and unembellished, as Pickering was up against competition from many other tellers.

Modifies a noun

  • machine: For our daily cash, we trust the banks or automated teller machines to deliver.
  • window: The banks DO check your CDL number as well as date of birth at the teller window.

Noun used with modifier

  • fortune: Open the fortune teller each way, counting up to the number they chose.
  • sheriff: SHERIFF TELLER: They can detect every flash of lightning on this planet.
  • story: Then the story teller began to spin his magic yarn.
  • Gypsy: Estrella, ( O'Hara ), a gypsy fortune teller at a carnival, transforms her clients into zombies by throwing acid on them.
  • bank: Police say Bass is accused of passing a note to a bank teller saying ` ` don't be stupid.
  • master: Nakata says he considers himself more a ' celluloid craftsman ' than a master story teller.

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