Word Meanings - TELLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. 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. Cowell. 3. An officer

Additional info about word: TELLER

1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. 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. Cowell. 3. An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks. 4. One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.

Related words: (words related to TELLER)

• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• PAYABLE
  1. That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South. That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value. Matured; now due.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• EXCHEQUER
  1. One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table. Note: The exchequer was a court of law and equity. In the revenue department, it had jurisdiction over the proprietary rights
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• INFORMER
  One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution
• NARRATOR
  One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.
• APPOINTOR
  The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
• APPOINTIVE
  Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.
• APPOINT
  To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. Crowley. (more info) prepare,
• DESCRIBER
  One who describes.
• RECEIVEDNESS
  The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion. Boyle.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• APPOINTABLE
  Capable of being appointed or constituted.
• RECEIVERSHIP
  The state or office of a receiver.
• ENGLISHRY
  1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
• NARRATORY
  Giving an account of events; narrative; as, narratory letters. Howell.
• MISRECEIVE
  To receive wrongly.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• MISINFORMER
  One who gives or incorrect information.
• PRELATESHIP
  The office of a prelate. Harmar.
• PREAPPOINT
  To appoint previously, or beforehand. Carlyle.