clerk1 nounclerk2 verb
clerkclerk1 /klɑːk $ klɜːrk/ ●●○ S3 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINclerk1
Origin:
1000-1100 Old French clerc ‘man in a religious order, scholar, man who keeps records’, from Late Latin clericus, from Late Greek klerikos, from Greek kleros ‘what you receive in life’; because the Bible says that priests will receive things only from GodEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a clerk at a convenience store
- Please return your keys to the clerk at the front desk.
- Right now I am working as a law clerk downtown.
- At the ValuJet counter, two clerks tried to pay attention to their immediate task: putting people on other ValuJet flights.
- Benefices, however, were not the only church assets which the king exploited for his clerks.
- He cooked for himself and for others, eventually branching out to jobs as a wine clerk and private chef.
- His signature was duly witnessed by two of the clerks in the firm.
- The clerk on that day was Miss Claire Robinson.
- There are groups of employees with specific job specialties, such as cashiers, stock clerks, and meat-cutters.
- We went to eat lunch in a restaurant frequented by poorly paid clerks and secretaries and, no doubt, messengers.
WORD SETS
abbess, nounabbey, nounabbot, nounabsolution, nounAdvent, nounalleluia, interjectionaltar boy, nounAnglican, nounAnglo-Catholic, nounapocalyptic, adjectiveapostle, nounapostolic, adjectivearchbishop, nounarchbishopric, nounarchdeacon, nounarchdiocese, nounArk of the Covenant, nounAsh Wednesday, nounAuthorized Version, banns, nounbaptism, nounBaptist, nounbaptize, verbbasilica, nounbeadle, nounbeatify, verbBenedictine, nounbenediction, nounbenefice, nounbiblical, adjectivebiretta, nounbishop, nounbishopric, nounblaspheme, verbblasphemy, nounbrother, nounbull, nounCalvinism, nounCalvinist, adjectivecanon, nouncanonical, adjectivecanonize, verbcanon law, nouncantor, nouncardinal, nouncardinal sin, nouncarol, nouncatechism, nouncathedral, nounCatholic, adjectivechantry, nounchapel, nounchaplain, nounchaplaincy, nounchapter, nounchapterhouse, nouncherub, nounChrist, nounchristen, verbChristendom, nounchristening, nounChristian, nounChristian, adjectivechurch, nounchurchgoer, nounchurchman, nounChurch of England, nounchurchwarden, nounchurchwoman, nounchurchyard, nounclergyman, nounclergywoman, nouncleric, nounclerical, adjectiveclerk, nouncloister, nouncollect, nouncommandment, nouncommunicant, nouncompline, nounconfess, verbconfession, nounconfessional, nounconfessor, nounconfirmation, nouncongregation, nounCongregationalism, nounconsecrate, verbcope, nouncreationist, nouncreche, nouncrib, nouncrosier, nouncrozier, nouncrucifix, nouncrucifixion, nouncrusade, nouncrusade, verbcrypt, nouncuracy, nouncurate, noundeacon, noundeaconess, noundean, noundeanery, noundiocese, noundisciple, noundisestablish, verbdispensation, noundog collar, nounDominican, nounEaster, nounecclesiastic, nounecclesiastical, adjectiveecumenical, adjectiveEden, nounelder, nounencyclical, nounEpiphany, nounepiscopal, adjectiveEpistle, nounevangelical, adjectiveevangelist, nounevangelize, verbevensong, nounexcommunicate, verbexegesis, nounfellowship, nounflagellant, nounflagellate, verbflock, nounfont, nounFr, friar, nounfrock, nounfundamentalist, noungargoyle, noungenuflect, verbgodfather, nounGod-fearing, adjectivegodless, adjectivegodly, adjectivegodmother, noungodparent, noungodson, nounGood Friday, noungrace, noungracious, adjectiveHail Mary, nounharvest festival, nounHigh Church, nounHigh Mass, nounHoly Communion, nounHoly Father, nounHoly Spirit, nounHoly Week, nounHoly Writ, nounhomily, nounhymn book, nounimprimatur, nounincarnation, nouninduct, verbindulgence, nouninquisitor, nouninterdenominational, adjectiveinterdict, nounJehovah, Jesuit, nounJesus, judgment day, nounlay, adjectivelay reader, nounlectern, nounlesson, nounlitany, nounLow Church, nounlychgate, nounMadonna, nounmanna, nounmanse, nounmatins, nounmeeting-house, nounmessianic, adjectiveMethodist, nounminister, nounministerial, adjectiveministry, nounminster, nounmiracle, nounmissal, nounmissionary, nounmitre, nounmoderator, nounMonsignor, nounMorning Prayer, nounmortal sin, nounMother of God, nounMother Superior, nounname day, nounNativity, nounNativity play, nounnave, nounNegro spiritual, nounNoah's ark, nounNonconformist, adjectivenuncio, nounoffertory, nounoratory, nounordination, nounoriginal sin, nounOur Father, nounOur Lady, Our Lord, padre, nounPalm Sunday, nounpapacy, nounpapal, adjectivepapist, nounparable, nounparish, nounparish church, nounparish clerk, nounparishioner, nounparochial, adjectiveparochial school, nounparson, nounparsonage, nounpassion play, nounpastor, nounpatriarch, nounpatron saint, nounpenance, nounpenitent, nounPentecost, nounPentecostal, adjectiveperdition, nounPlymouth Brethren, nounpontiff, nounpontifical, adjectivepontificate, nounPope, nounprayer book, nounpredestination, nounprelate, nounPresbyterian, nounpresbytery, nounpriest, nounPrimate, nounprior, nounprioress, nounpriory, nounPromised Land, the, Protestant, nounpsalm, nounpsalmist, nounpsalter, nounpulpit, nounQuaker, nounRC, rector, nounrectory, nounredeem, verbredemption, nounrequiem, nounRev, Revd, Reverend, nounReverend Mother, nounrevival, nounrevival meeting, nounRoman Catholic, adjectiverood screen, nounrosary, nounsacrament, nounsacristan, nounsacristy, nounsaint, nounsainted, adjectivesainthood, nounsaint's day, nounsalvation, nounsanctuary, nounSatan, nounsave, verbschism, nounscriptural, adjectivesecular, adjectivesee, nounseminary, nounseraph, nounsermon, nounsexton, nounShrove Tuesday, nounsister, nounsisterhood, nounSJ, special licence, nounsteeple, nounstigmata, nounstoup, nounSunday school, nounsurplice, nounsynod, nountabernacle, nountestify, verbtransubstantiation, nounTrappist, noununfrock, verbUnitarian, nounvenial, adjectivevespers, nounvestment, nounvestry, nounvicar, nounvicarage, nounvotive, adjectivevow, nounVulgate, the, nounWhitsun, nounwimple, nounXmas, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Leave the keys with the desk clerk.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1someone who keeps records or accounts in an office: Leave the keys with the desk clerk. (=a junior worker in a bank)· He began his career as a bank clerk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Firms began to poach partners and to recruit dozens of assistant solicitors and articled clerks.· They then knock at solicitors' doors, presenting their credentials and asking if there is a vacancy for an articled clerk.· The defendants' articled clerk handled the wife's affairs and negotiated a financial settlement with the husband's solicitors.· Opposite to David's desk stood a smaller one occupied by the articled clerk.· Then Hubert was going to be an articled clerk, straight after school.· He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor.
· These people might include the chief clerks and foremen who control the dally ordering, production and distribution processes.· The chief executive or clerk of the authority will tell the councillor when they apply to him.· That evening he sat by his fireside with his chief clerk, Mr Guest, beside him.· If he requires information he should approach the chief executive or clerk of the council for it.· He should not seek information from other local authorities except through the chief executive or clerk of his own council.· There is no necessity to appoint a legally qualified chief executive or clerk.
· Payments are probably dealt with by some junior clerk who applies his or her own interpretation of what the company wants.· He was junior clerk under Peter Marro.· Before the Treasury was rehoused at the end of Whitehall its junior clerks were scratching here at their ledgers.· Fred obtained a position as a junior shipping clerk over many other applicants by being smarter than they were.· The junior clerk in the Profitboss's team is a prospect.· Each of these six departments had two or three clerks or junior clerks to assist them in the work.· It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph, as a junior clerk.· He first appears in the records as a junior clerk or singing-man in Henry VI's chapel royal, in 1441.
· He became a royal clerk, probably by July 1359, certainly by 1361.· The acquisition of Templar estates and of alien priories likewise enlarged the openings for royal clerks.· Many farms were let out to royal clerks and lay servants - another aspect of crown patronage.
· Beyond this opened a small glass-sided cubicle from which a senior clerk could watch for frivolity among the underlings.· A senior clerk should clear the machines and then reset them to zero at various times during the day.· He is a senior bank clerk and lives in London.
· There was a young clerk on duty on his own.
NOUN· He was forced to leave school at 16 and go to work as a bank clerk.· He was the son of Samuel Odle, bank clerk.· Teller robbed bank for love A BANK clerk robbed the till of £850,000 to keep her married boyfriend in luxury.· My father was a bank clerk, the son of a dispensing chemist.· Why was the bank clerk sitting up a tree?· Eventually, I got a job as bank clerk in London when the banks went on a recruiting drive in Ireland.· He is a senior bank clerk and lives in London.
· The top spot goes to the candidate whose petitions are fled first with the city clerk.· The confidential world of the city clerk persists in Eliot's poorest play which looks again to Victorian melodrama.· They manned the desk of the city clerk and peopled a phantom orchestra.· There's also a letter from the Lemon Grove city clerk, peppered with profanity, that she never wrote.
· Others hold office as county clerk, assessor, or recorder of deeds and a few are congressmen and state legislators.· The county clerk has traditionally performed civil marriages.· This time it was the county clerk, with less than a year left of his four-year term.· The inmate simply fills out a proxy form and mails it to the county clerk.· This time they prevailed, and Daley agreed to be slated for county clerk.
· There was a packed public gallery as the charges were formally read out by the court clerk.· Once an item is introduced in a trial, court clerks assume custody of it, locking it in a courthouse cabinet.· One alternate juror choked with grief and accepted the water and tissues from a concerned court clerk.
· The desk clerk was a worried, grey-haired man with steel-rimmed glasses and a medal.· Al Perry, Hotel Congress desk clerk.· There was no desk clerk in the notebook.· On the third night, she went up ahead while he uncorked a bottle and shared it with the desk clerk.· The same desk clerk was on duty when Kragan left the hotel two hours later, at nine in the evening.· It had to be the desk clerk.· At the time, he said, Jackson was working as a desk clerk at the hotel.
· The file clerk must have a great deal of trouble with it.· Get whatever the file clerk will give you in the prenatal area and what you get, reduce.· Usually the file clerk hands out material on the basis of time and topic.· The file clerk hands out the scalding.· Go prenatal as far as you can and see what the file clerk will hand forth.· Do not try to erase anything as remote from basic-basic as birth unless the file clerk insists on presenting birth.· You and his file clerk know.· Birth will come up when it will come up and the file clerk knows his business.
· A 23-year-old woman law clerk has appeared in court charged with helping him escape and harbouring him.· On either side are two courtrooms and adjoining chambers and law clerk offices.
· The driver had not seen anyone on the platform and neither had the booking office clerk.· Crawford, as a post office clerk further down the cast, was paid just 350 for five weeks' work.
· The parish clerk was asked to report the matter to the area surveyor.
· The store clerk is about to call the police.· This facility is intended to help a few hundred families living in public housing by training them to be grocery store clerks.
· The fourth was town clerk, solicitor J. F. Cooper.· The town clerk, SiL Mr Sheets.· This was in accordance with the advice of senior officers, including town clerk John Cobley.· I pretty much have to hire whatever walks through that door if the town clerk sends him up.
VERB· Mostly teenagers, they were led to believe that if they worked hard they would become clerks or even dealers.· On leaving school he became a clerk.· He became a royal clerk, probably by July 1359, certainly by 1361.· In 1273 he became a king's clerk.
a clerk in a commercial firm2 American English someone whose job is to help people in a shop: the clerk in the shoe store3American English someone whose job is to help people when they arrive at and leave a hotel: Leave the keys with the desk clerk.4an official in charge of the records of a court, town council etc5 old use a priest in the Church of Englandclerk1 nounclerk2 verb
clerkclerk2 verb [intransitive] especially American English informal to work as a clerk