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Itasan Posted 20 years ago
Business & Finance
ATM
Which is most commonly used?
1. automatic teller machine
2. automatic telling machine
3. automated teller machine
4. automated telling machine
Thank you.
1. automatic teller machine
2. automatic telling machine
3. automated teller machine
4. automated telling machine
Thank you.
Top answer
I don't know because no-one ever uses the full name! It would definitely include 'teller' not 'telling' as a teller is the American word for bank clerk, but the verb 'telling' is not used in this context. Whether it is automatic or automated, I don't know.
- I don't know because no-one ever uses the full name!
- It would definitely include 'teller' not 'telling' as a teller is the American word for bank clerk, but the verb 'telling' is not used in this context.
- Whether it is automatic or automated, I don't know.
- But like I said, no-one uses the full name, except perhaps the manufacturers of the machine If you said any of those options to me I wouldn't have the foggiest idea what you were talking about, whereas ATM is familiar.
- Although in British English we use 'cashpoint' for them.
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I don't know because no-one ever uses the full name! It would definitely include 'teller' not 'telling' as a teller is the American word for bank clerk, but the verb 'telling' is not used in this context. Whether it is automatic or automated, I don't know.
But like I said, no-one uses the full name, except perhaps the manufacturers of the machine
But like I said, no-one uses the full name, except perhaps the manufacturers of the machine
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It's the phrase "automated teller machine" (if i don't have any mistake
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