tellershipn.
/ˈtɛləʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈtɛlərˌʃɪp/ The office or position of a teller (in various senses of teller n.).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > keeper of accounts > office or department of
counting-housea1483
accountantship1668
tellership1764
accounts department1829
cost centre1921
account1960
1764 H. Walpole Let. 18 Mar. in Corr. (1960) XXII. 211 His tellership of the Exchequer comes by reversion to Mr Grenville's son.
1788 W. Eden in G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 77 Ought I to seek for my son the second reversion of a Tellership?
1807 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 5 565 Abolishing tellerships and auditorships of the exchequer.
1868 Bankers' Mag. Apr. 832 After some years, he was appointed to a tellership in the Commercial and Farmers' Bank of Baltimore.
1914 Eng. Hist. Rev. 29 167 He obtained the reversion of a tellership of the exchequer for his eldest son.
1963 D. Gray Spencer Perceval ix. 121 The tellership was worth about £2,700 a year: its few duties might be performed by deputy.
2001 J. Paddock Keeper of Wild i. 12 They offered him the tellership of the leading bank in Davenport.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1764- to make a virtue of a need
- to make a virtue of necessity
- to make a vow
- to make a voyage
- to make a waft
- to make a welshman's hose of
- to make a woman an honest woman
- to make a woman of
- to make a wonderment
- to make a word like a welshman's hose
- to make a work
- to make a wound sound
- to make a wry face or mouth
- to make a wry face or mouth wry faces
- to make a wry face or mouth wry mouths
- to make a wry mouth
- to make a wry mouths
- to make a, one's fortune
- to make abode
- to make abort
- to make about
- to make account
- to make account of
- to make acquaintance
- to make acquaintance of also occasionally with