teller
US /ˈtɛlɚ/
Definition
United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
The bank teller counted the cash and gave me a receipt.
Word Family
Synonyms
- cashieran employee of a bank who receives and pays out money
- bank clerkhaving a meaning similar to teller
- counter clerkhaving a meaning similar to teller
Collocations
- Easy bank tellerto bank teller, meaning to tip laterally
- Medium deposit cash with the branch tellerto deposit cash with the branch teller, meaning to put, fix, force, or implant
- Hard automated teller machine network maintenance agreementto automated teller machine network maintenance agreement, meaning to make automatic or control or operate automatically
- Very Hard fortunes told by a charismatic fortune teller deceiving foolsdescribing fortunes told by a charismatic fortune teller deceiving fools (an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another)
Learner's English edition · Curated definitions for TOEIC learners.