1
: one that relates or communicates
a teller of stories
2
: one that reckons or counts: such as
a
: a member of a bank's staff concerned with the direct handling of money received or paid out
b
: one appointed to count votes
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Michigan Legacy Credit Union tellers and employees at the credit union's call center will try to look for any signs of a potential scam, Peters said.
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Susan Tompor, USA Today, 15 May 2025
Eventually, she was hired as a bank teller at Colonial Bank, beginning a career that would span more than two decades and multiple bank mergers.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 10 May 2025
To accomplish this, such leaders frequently follow a common playbook of attacking truth tellers and truth-telling institutions as a prelude to controlling information infrastructure and a broad-scale decimation of scientific programs.
—Sander Van Der Linden, Time, 6 May 2025
In that incident, the teller alleged that the robber held up a note that demanded $10,000 in big bills without any trackers or dye backs, the warrant affidavits said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2025
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Susan Tompor, USA Today, 15 May 2025
Eventually, she was hired as a bank teller at Colonial Bank, beginning a career that would span more than two decades and multiple bank mergers.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 10 May 2025
To accomplish this, such leaders frequently follow a common playbook of attacking truth tellers and truth-telling institutions as a prelude to controlling information infrastructure and a broad-scale decimation of scientific programs.
—Sander Van Der Linden, Time, 6 May 2025
In that incident, the teller alleged that the robber held up a note that demanded $10,000 in big bills without any trackers or dye backs, the warrant affidavits said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2025
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“Teller.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teller. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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teller
noun
tell·er
ˈtel-ər 
1
: one that tells
a teller of tales
2
: a person who counts votes (as in a legislative body)
3
: a bank employee who receives and pays out money
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