DCHP-2

bank machine instant teller bank machine, automated bank machine DCHP-2 (September 2016)

• 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).

  See also:   automated banking machine see Image 1;  guichet  

  • 1985  National network of bank machines begins new era of convenience [Headline] 
  • 1990  Police investigators say the thieves used a front-end loader on Thursday night to crash through the wall, scoop out the bank machine and load it onto a stolen truck. The automatic teller, which weighs about a tonne, contained about $96,000. 
  • 1990  At the Fort Erie outlet, for instance, there's free coffee, an instant teller bank machine, and Deak International operates a currency exchange booth. 
  • 1994  It started out as just another day filled with the usual tough decisions. I needed to buy milk but I was baffled as to whether a litre of homo could be substituted for two litres of 2 per cent or four litres of 1 per cent. And what about skim? Before I could even begin to deal with that weighty matter, I first had to stop at the bank machine to get money. And that's where my troubles began. 
  • 2000  Canadians love bank machines. According to Canadian Bankers Association figures (and who can argue with that for a source?), we each toddled off to an ABM about once a week in 1997 -- an average of 52.7 transactions per person. Compare that to the slowfolks south of the border, who only averaged 44.1. 
  • 2007  Like extramarital lust and forest tent caterpillars, the issue of excessive fees charged to use automated bank machines seems to raise its ugly head about every seven years. In late 1999 I wrote a story that "rather than being nickeled and dimed, consumers are feeling loonied and toonied to death by bank service charges." At issue was the "white label" ATMs, those non-bank-owned cash dispensers that charge a convenience fee, in addition to the regular account fee charged by a financial institution (usually included in a service package) and the network access fee charged for using a machine owned by another financial institution belonging to Interac or The Exchange. 
  • 2009  Provincial gaming regulations require that suppliers of financial services be on the registry of suppliers of non-gaming services unless they are regulated by the provincial or federal governments or are part of a professional organization established by statute, neither of which is the case with white-label cash machines. [...] There are white-label bank machines in all six of SIGA's casinos. 
  • 2015  MacNeil withdrew $400 from a bank machine to pay for the drugs.