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    clerk
    /klərk/

    noun

    • 1. a person employed in an office or bank to keep records, accounts, and undertake other routine administrative duties: "the clerk inserted the bank's master key in the lower lock"
    • 2. a receptionist in a hotel: North American "she approached the desk and the clerk looked down at her"

    verb

    • 1. work as a clerk: North American "eleven of those who left college this year are clerking in auction houses"

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  2. a person who works in an office, dealing with records or performing general office duties: a filing clerk. a junior office clerk. US (also salesclerk) a person who serves customers in a shop: Take your purchases to the clerk, and he will wrap them for you. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. a person who sells things.

  3. archaic: scholar. 3. a. : an official responsible (as to a government agency) for correspondence, records, and accounts and vested with specified powers or authority (as to issue writs as ordered by a court) city clerk. b. : one employed to keep records or accounts or to perform general office work. a bank clerk. c.

  4. Clerk definition: a person employed, as in an office, to keep records, file, type, or perform other general office tasks.. See examples of CLERK used in a sentence.

  5. a person who works in an office, dealing with records or performing general office duties. A clerk is also a person who deals with customers in a store or hotel: The sales clerk helped me find a sweater in my size.

  6. A clerk is a person who works in an office, bank, or law court and whose job is to look after the records or accounts.

  7. A clerk is an office worker who does various paper work and often keeps accounts of money or other details. An office clerk might answer the phone, file papers, or organize computer records. A clerical worker is one kind of clerk, and another is the person behind a counter at a store who rings up sales on a cash register.

  8. Definition of clerk noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  9. Noun. CLERK definition: 1. someone who works in an office or bank, keeping records and doing general office work: 2…. Learn more.

  10. Clerk definition: A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing.

  11. CLERK meaning: 1 : a person whose job is to keep track of records and documents for a business or office; 2 : an elected or appointed official whose job is to take care of official papers and business for a court or government.