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teller

nomcourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈtɛlə//
  • États-Unis//ˈtɛləɹ//

A person who tells stories.

nom

  1. 1

    A person who tells stories.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    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.

    The young femail teller fingered the prices into the cash register at great speed with great dexterity while simultaneously holding a conversation with the teller in the next lane.

    The main street was shuttered; the only sign of life she detected was behind the window of the petrol station, where the teller was counting the day's cash balance into the till.

  4. 4

    Synonym of automated teller machine.

  5. 5

    A person who counts the votes in an election.

Étymologie

From Middle English tellere (“one who counts or enumerates; one who recounts or relates; teller”), equivalent to tell (verb) + -er.

Formes

pluriel
tellers
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).