Clerk

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing.
  • n. A person who keeps the records and performs the regular business of a court, legislative body, or municipal district.
  • n. Law A law clerk, as for a judge.
  • n. A person who works at a sales counter or service desk, as at a store or hotel.
  • n. A cleric.
  • n. Archaic A scholar.
  • verb-intransitive. To work or serve as a clerk: clerked in a store; clerks for a judge.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
  • n. A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs
  • n. In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
  • v. To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
  • n. A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
  • n. A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
  • n. One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant.
  • n. An assistant in a shop or store.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A clergyman; a priest; an ecclesiastic; a man in holy orders.
  • n. A learned man; a man of letters; a scholar; a writer or author; originally, a man who could read, an attainment at one time confined chiefly to ecclesiastics.
  • n. The layman who leads in reading the responses in the service of the Church of England. Also called parish clerk.
  • n. An officer of a court, legislature, municipal corporation, or other body, whose duty generally is to keep the records of the body to which he is attached, and perform the routine business: as, clerk of court; town clerk; clerk to a school-board, etc. See secretary.
  • n. One who is employed in an office, public or private, or in a shop or warehouse, to keep records or accounts; one who is employed by another as a writer or amanuensis.
  • n. In the United States, an assistant in business, whether or not a keeper of accounts; especially, a retail salesman.
  • n. In the United States, a popular name for the head of the meteorological department of the Signal Service.
  • To write; compose.
  • To serve as a clerk; act as accountant or salesman: frequently used in the phrase to clerk it.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)
  • n. a salesperson in a store
  • v. work as a clerk, as in the legal business
  • Verb Form
    clerked    clerking    clerks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    work   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    scholar    scribe    accountant   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Berk    Burk    Burke    Dirk    Kirk    Merc    Turk    berk    berserk    birk   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    secretary    servant    officer    lawyer    doctor    official    manager    worker    merchant    judge