Teller: Definition and part of speech

Teller

  1. n. One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.
  2. n. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
  3. n. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king.
  4. n. An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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