n. — Finance
an electronic machine offering banking teller services. See Image 1 at automated banking machine.
Type: 5. Frequency — Bank machine is the preferred Canadian term in spoken language. Overall, 55% of Canadians report the use of this variant. Boberg (2010: 116) considers it a "non-exclusive" yet "robust" Canadianism. It is the majority term in all provinces except Saskatchewan, where ATM is the leader. ATM is the majority term in the US (for automated teller machine). Bank machine and ATM produce one of the major lexical isoglosses that separate Canadian from American usage.
A minority of Canadians report variants such as ATM, money machine, cash machine, or, in Quebec, the French loan word, guichet (Boberg 2005: 27). ATM is the most significant competitor, with about a third of respondents in the Vancouver-Victoria area, Alberta and Manitoba reporting it and 41% of respondents on Prince Edward Island reporting it (Boberg 2005: 49).