| 单词 | clerk |
| 释义 | clerk (once / 154 pages) nv 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. The clerk at your favorite bookstore might also recommend the best new books. Clerk originally had a religious meaning, from cleric, which meant both "ordained person" and "literate person." Because of this second meaning, clerk came to mean "anyone who can read or write." WORD FAMILYclerk: clerked, clerking, clerks, clerkship+/clerkship: clerkships USAGE EXAMPLESTrump released a list of potential choices during the campaign that included Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who clerked for Justice Samuel Alito. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Police say a man confronted the clerk and demanded cash while implying that he was armed, although he did not show a weapon. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Clerks in Illinois, Michigan, Texas, Florida and California also reported a recent rise in marriages. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1n an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts) Hypo|Hyper desk clerk, hotel clerk, hotel desk clerk a hotel receptionist file clerk, filer, filing clerka clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization paper-pushera clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork pencil pusher, penpushera clerk who does boring paperwork mapper, plottera clerk who marks data on a chart mail clerk, postal clerka clerk in a post office settlera clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings shipping clerkan employee who ships and receives goods sortera clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office) tally clerk, tallymanone who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received timekeepera clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees room clerka hotel clerk who is responsible for room assignments to guests employee a worker who is hired to perform a job 2n a salesperson in a store Syn|Hypo|Hyper salesclerk, shop assistant, shop clerk shop boy a young male shop assistant shop girla young female 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) 3v work as a clerk, as in the legal business Hyper work exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity |
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