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clerk

[klurk, klahrk]

noun

  1. a person employed, as in an office, to keep records, file, type, or perform other general office tasks.

  2. a salesclerk.

  3. a person who keeps the records and performs the routine business of a court, legislature, board, etc.

  4. law clerk.

  5. a member of the clergy; ecclesiastic.

  6. a lay person charged with various minor ecclesiastical duties.

  7. Archaic.

    1. a person who is able to read, or to read and write.

    2. a scholar.



verb (used without object)

  1. to act or serve as a clerk.

clerk

/ klɜːrk, klɑːk /

noun

  1. a worker, esp in an office, who keeps records, files, etc

  2. (in England) a legally qualified person who sits in court with lay justices to advise them on points of law

  3. an employee of a court, legislature, board, corporation, etc, who keeps records and accounts, etc

    a town clerk

  4. Also called: clerk of the House.a senior official of the House of Commons

  5. Also called: clerk in holy orders.a cleric

  6. short for salesclerk

  7. Also called: desk clerk.a hotel receptionist

  8. archaica scholar

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (intr) to serve as a clerk

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of clerk1

before 1000; Middle English, Old English clerc, variant of cleric < Late Latin ŧܲ cleric
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of clerk1

Old English clerc, from Church Latin ŧܲ, from Greek ŧDz cleric, relating to the heritage (alluding to the Biblical Levites, whose inheritance was the Lord), from ŧDz heritage
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As it turns out, Mary needs a loan, and Judy needs a library clerk.

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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.

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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.”

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He started working at the post office in 1978 as a part-time summer clerk and worked his way up through the ranks.

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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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