1. a bank employee who handles routine transactions with customers
2. a person who tells or relates something, especially stories
3. a person appointed to count votes in an election or legislative body
Usage: formal; political

Examples

• The bank teller helped me deposit my paycheck.
• I waited in line to speak with a teller about opening a new account.
• She worked as a teller at the credit union for five years.
• The old man was a gifted teller of folk tales.
• He was known as an entertaining teller of jokes and stories.
• The tellers announced the final vote count to the assembly.
• Two tellers were appointed to oversee the ballot counting process.