| 单词 | walk-clerk |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswalk-clerk walk-clerk n. now historical a banker's clerk whose duty it is to collect payment of cheques in a particular district. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > one conducting banking business > bank-clerk bank clerk1742 bank teller1766 walk-clerk1865 1865 Times 3 May 11/6 The prisoner was employed there [sc. the East London Bank] as a ‘walk clerk,’ and had what they called the upper west walk. 1906 G. R. Sims Living London (rev. ed.) III. 90/2 A stream of ‘walk clerks’ is continually arriving, each man carrying a portfolio which in most cases is securely chained to him. 1996 M. Campbell-Kelly & W. Aspray Computer 16 As the use of checks gained in popularity in the middle of the eighteenth century, each of the London banks employed a ‘walk clerk’. < as lemmas |
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