automatic teller

noun

: atm

Examples of automatic teller in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Nigeria’s central bank slashed the daily withdrawal limit from automatic teller machines in a bid to boost digital payments in Africa’s most-populous nation. Emele Onu, Bloomberg.com, 6 Dec. 2022 When automatic teller machines arrived in the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of bank teller jobs were supposed to vanish. Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023 Its top executives now say the company’s future is better as two independent corporations — one focused on automatic teller machines and related services and another focused on digital commerce and the evolving retail, hospitality and online banking sectors. Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 16 Sep. 2022 The cyber attacks disrupted credit card and automatic teller transactions for several days, took down the government's parliamentary email server and crippled the IT capabilities of government ministries. Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2015 Those improvements would manifest themselves in everything from lowering the height of automatic teller machines that can speak to customers, to mandating sign language interpreters for deaf people who serve on juries. Sam Roberts, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021 Garth Kiser, a 43-year-old from Oregon, Illinois, visited a Chivo automatic teller Wednesday hoping to exchange dollars for bitcoin. Time, 9 Sep. 2021 Galvez’s job was to remove the money from automatic teller machines, lock it up in the truck and then refill the ATM with new money. Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2021 Cash register drawers and clothes hangers were strewn about the streets, along with automatic teller machines that had been ripped from walls or pulled from inside businesses. Don Babwin, Star Tribune, 10 Aug. 2020

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Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of automatic teller was in 1971

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“Automatic teller.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/automatic%20teller. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.

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