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TELLER. An officer in a bank or other institution. He is said to take that name from tallier, or one who kept a tally, because it is his duty to keep the accounts between the bank or other institution and its customers, or to make their accounts tally. In another sense teller signifies a person appointed to receive votes. In England the name of teller is given to certain officers in the exchequer.



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Dimensions Possibilities Tellership One active teller Multiple active [left and right arrow] co-tellers Tellability High [left and right arrow] Low Embeddedness Detached [left and right arrow] Embedded Linearity Closed temporal and causal Open t.
He was an Exchequer official of some importance, having been granted the reversion of a tellership in the Exchequer after his father-in-law Richard Warner ([dagger]1545) on 29 June 1544.
 
 
 
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