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The human interface standing between you and the ATM's lack of judgment.
means A bank employee who handles deposits, withdrawals, and other transactions directly with customers.
from From 'tell' in its old sense of 'to count' — the same sense that survives in 'telling your beads' on a rosary or a bank 'teller's' till. Tracing back through Old English 'tellan' to Germanic roots meaning to recount or number, the word kept its counting-house meaning long after 'tell' drifted toward storytelling in everyday speech.
- origin
- from tell, as in count money
- job security
- declining since ATMs arrived in 1967
- other meaning
- someone who tells, like a fortune teller
- dying breed
- bank branches shrink, tellers shrink faster