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tellers

tellers is the plural of teller.

Meaning of teller

Noun

teller (plural tellers)

  1. A person who tells stories.
  2. (US) 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.2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 93
    Synonyms:
    cashier
  3. (broadly) 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.2007, Joseph T. Wells, Corporate Fraud Handbook: Prevention and Detection, page 107
  4. Synonym of automated teller machine.
  5. A person who counts the votes in an election.

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Phrases with tellers

Questions about tellers

What is tellers the plural of?
Tellers is the plural of teller.

Words near tellers in the dictionary

  1. teller
  2. Teller County
  3. Telleria
  4. Tellerias
  5. tellerless
  6. tellers
  7. tellership
  8. tellerships
  9. tellest
  10. telleth
  11. Tellez

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