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Clerk and Teller Definitions

Clerk

A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing.

Teller

One who tells
A teller of tall tales.

Clerk

A person who keeps the records and performs the regular business of a court, legislative body, or municipal district.

Teller

A bank employee who receives and pays out money.

Clerk

(Law) A law clerk, as for a judge.
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Teller

An automated teller machine.

Clerk

A person who works at a sales counter or service desk, as at a store or hotel.

Teller

A person appointed to count votes in a legislative assembly.

Clerk

A cleric.

Teller

A person who tells stories.
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Clerk

(Archaic) A scholar.

Teller

A bank clerk who receives and pays out money.

Clerk

To work or serve as a clerk
Clerked in a store.
Clerks for a judge.

Teller

(banking) automated teller machine

Clerk

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

Teller

A person who counts the votes in an election.

Clerk

A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.

Teller

One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

Clerk

A law clerk.

Teller

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.

Clerk

An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.

Teller

An employee of a bank who receives money paid in, and pays money out, and makes records of such transactions.

Clerk

(Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.

Teller

One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.

Clerk

(archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).

Teller

United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bombs and the first hydrogen bomb (born in 1908)

Clerk

(dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).

Teller

An official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)

Clerk

(obsolete) A scholar.

Teller

An employee of a bank who receives and pays out money

Clerk

To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.

Teller

Someone who tells a story

Clerk

A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ.

Clerk

A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe.

Clerk

A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
And like unlettered clerk still cry "Amen".

Clerk

One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill.

Clerk

An assistant in a shop or store.

Clerk

An employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)

Clerk

A salesperson in a store

Clerk

Work as a clerk, as in the legal business

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