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teller

[tel-er] / ˈtɛl ər /
NOUN
bank clerk
Synonyms
STRONGEST
bank employee cashier


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At the time, Simpson was often working seven days a week as a bank teller and home health aide, earning under $20 an hour at each job.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

You may need a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and a fortune teller to predict the returns over the lifetime of your grandchildren to ensure that they each end up with an equal amount.

From MarketWatch May 28, 2026

Dealing with a call center or an automated teller might have been exasperating.

From Barron's Apr. 14, 2026

Officials in Los Angeles County warned that elderly Asians withdrawing cash from automated teller machines to participate in a Lunar New Year tradition could be vulnerable to robberies.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 10, 2026

Mom kept all her notes from every bank teller and embassy representative and African expert she talked to on a yellow legal pad.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

In the main lounge, cats like Fruitcake and Seer’s lookalike kitten brother, Oracle, surrounded us as we created paper fortune tellers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Then scammers typically pile on pressure, adding voices claiming to be attorneys, courtroom clerks or bank tellers -- a cast of fictitious characters in a chaotic, urgent-sounding call.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

In the same way that air stewards are there for your safety, first and foremost, above and beyond serving you tea and coffee, bank tellers are there as frontline protection.

From MarketWatch Oct. 21, 2025

As often happens, truth tellers weren’t really in short supply.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 14, 2025

But a strange and catholic selection of citizens tiptoed to the chapel door and peered in and went away—lawyers and laborers and clerks and bank tellers, most of them past middle age.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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