clerk
see also: Clerk
Pronunciation Noun
Clerk
Proper noun
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see also: Clerk
Pronunciation Noun
clerk (plural clerks)
- One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
- 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “When I Was a Lad”, in H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], OCLC 181408105 ↗, page 10 ↗:
- As office boy I made such a mark
That they game me the post of a junior clerk.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
- (Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
- (archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
- 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act 4 scene 1:
- God save the King! Will no man say, amen? / Am I both priest and clerk? Well then, amen.
- 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act 4 scene 1:
- (dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).
- (obsolete) A scholar.
- 13th century, Traditional carol,
- And all was for an appel, an appel that he toke/As clerkès finden written in their boke.
- 13th century, Traditional carol,
- French: greffier
- German: Büroangestellte, Angestellte, Buchhalter, Bürokaufmann, Bürokauffrau, Gerichtsschreiber, Schreiber
- Portuguese: escriturário, escrevente, secretário, empregado de escritório
- Russian: клерк
- Spanish: oficinista, secretario, escribiente, auxiliar administrativo
clerk (clerks, present participle clerking; past and past participle clerked)
- To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
- 1956, Jean Stafford, "A Reading Problem" in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984, p. 332,
- In the winter, they lived in a town called Hoxie, Arkansas, where Evangelist Gerlash clerked in the Buttorf drugstore and preached and baptized on the side.
- The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
- 1956, Jean Stafford, "A Reading Problem" in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984, p. 332,
Clerk
Proper noun
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