First recorded in 1970–75
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A customer uses an automated teller machine at a branch of Halkbank in Istanbul August 15, 2014.
From Reuters • Oct. 24, 2021
The only financial innovation of recent decades that really improved Americans’ lives, Mr. Volcker once said, was the automated teller machine.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2019
Mr. Maselli said he once had neon signs in the window and an automated teller machine inside, which he removed at the landlord’s request.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2014
The bank told customers they could visit a branch or an automated teller machine instead of conducting business online.
From Reuters • Oct. 4, 2011
On a recent trip to Louisiana for her family reunion she watched every nickel and checked her balance at the automated teller machine several times a day.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
