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clerk
[klurk, klahrk]
noun
a person employed, as in an office, to keep records, file, type, or perform other general office tasks.
a salesclerk.
a person who keeps the records and performs the routine business of a court, legislature, board, etc.
a member of the clergy; ecclesiastic.
a lay person charged with various minor ecclesiastical duties.
Archaic.
a person who is able to read, or to read and write.
a scholar.
verb (used without object)
to act or serve as a clerk.
clerk
/ klɜːrk, klɑːk /
noun
a worker, esp in an office, who keeps records, files, etc
(in England) a legally qualified person who sits in court with lay justices to advise them on points of law
an employee of a court, legislature, board, corporation, etc, who keeps records and accounts, etc
a town clerk
Also called: clerk of the House.a senior official of the House of Commons
Also called: clerk in holy orders.a cleric
short for salesclerk
Also called: desk clerk.a hotel receptionist
archaica scholar
verb
(intr) to serve as a clerk
Other 51Թ Forms
- clerkish adjective
- clerklike adjective
- clerkship noun
- outclerk noun
- subclerk noun
- subclerkship noun
- underclerk noun
- underclerkship noun
- ˈdz noun
- ˈ noun
- ˈ쾱 adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of clerk1
Example Sentences
As it turns out, Mary needs a loan, and Judy needs a library clerk.
Since 2012, at least 17 Mexican judges and six clerks have been killed in connection with their work, according to the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based research organization.
Here, her incorrigible Eleanor barks at a grocery store clerk to fetch the kosher pickles and cackles with glee informing her grandson that his mother’s high school nickname was the “class mattress.”
He started working at the post office in 1978 as a part-time summer clerk and worked his way up through the ranks.
She's a law professor at the University of Michigan and once worked as a law clerk for former Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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