Definition of clerk Clerk
/klɚˈk/ - [klerk] - clerk
We found 13 definitions of clerk from 7 different sources.
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What does clerk mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: clerks |
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| clerk - an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts) | ||
| employee a worker who is hired to perform a job | ||
| desk clerk, hotel clerk, hotel desk clerk a hotel receptionist | ||
| file clerk, filing clerk, filer a clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization | ||
| paper-pusher a clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork | ||
| pencil pusher, penpusher a clerk who does boring paperwork | ||
| mapper, plotter an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures | ||
| mail clerk, postal clerk a clerk in a post office | ||
| settler a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | ||
| shipping clerk an employee who ships and receives goods | ||
| sorter a machine for sorting things (such as punched cards or letters) into classes | ||
| tally clerk, tallyman one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received | ||
| clerk - a salesperson in a store | ||
| salesclerk, shop clerk, shop assistant | ||
| sales rep, sales representative, salesperson a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) | ||
| britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, great britain a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom | ||
| shop boy a young male shop assistant | ||
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| clerk - work as a clerk, as in the legal business | ||
| work arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- clerk (Verb)
To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- clerk (n.)
A clergyman or ecclesiastic. - clerk (n.)
A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters. - clerk (n.)
A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. - clerk (n.)
One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk. - clerk (n.)
An assistant in a shop or store.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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clerk
klärk, or klerk, n. a clergyman or priest: a scholar: one who leads the responses in the English Church service: in common use, one employed as a writer, assistant, copyist, account-keeper, or correspondent in an office.—v.i. to act as clerk.—adj. Cler′ical, pertaining to a clerk or copyist, as in 'clerical error.'—ns. Clerk′dom, Clerk′ship; Clerk′ery, Clerk′age, the work of a clerk.—adjs. Clerk′ish, like a clerk; Clerk′less, ignorant; Clerk′-like, scholarly.—n. Clerk′ling, a young clerk.—adj. Clerk′ly, scholarly.—adv. in a scholar-like or learned manner.—Clerk of the weather, an imaginary functionary facetiously supposed to direct the weather.—Bible clerk, a scholar who reads the lessons in some college chapels. [A.S. clerc, a priest—Late L. clericus. See Clergy.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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clerk
Any naval officer doing the duty of a clerk.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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clerk
'Tis the clerk makes the justice.
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