Clerk
[klɑːk] or [klɝk]
Definition
(noun.) an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts).
(verb.) work as a clerk, as in the legal business.
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Definition
(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; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
(n.) An assistant in a shop or store.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Recorder, registrar, scribe, penman, accountant.[2]. Assistant (in a place of business).
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Definition
n. a clergyman or priest: a scholar: one who leads the responses in the English Church service: in common use one employed as a writer assistant copyist account-keeper or correspondent in an office.—v.i. to act as clerk.—adj. Cler′ical pertaining to a clerk or copyist as in 'clerical error.'—ns. Clerk′dom Clerk′ship; Clerk′ery Clerk′age the work of a clerk.—adjs. Clerk′ish like a clerk; Clerk′less ignorant; Clerk′-like scholarly.—n. Clerk′ling a young clerk.—adj. Clerk′ly scholarly.—adv. in a scholar-like or learned manner.—Clerk of the weather an imaginary functionary facetiously supposed to direct the weather.—Bible clerk a scholar who reads the lessons in some college chapels.
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Examples
- The porter lit it again, and I asked if that was all the light the clerk sent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You appear to feel it so,' rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- My impatience to reach the church was so great that I could not remain inactive in the cottage while the clerk lit the lantern again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Each machine was operated by a clerk, who translated the message into telegraphic characters and prepared the transmitting tape by punching the necessary perforations therein. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He's vestry-clerk here now as his father was before him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a-- I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said, A clerk. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Before the Sergeant could put his next question, another visitor was announced--the head clerk from Mr. Bruff's office. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Sir Sluggish Knight, replied the Clerk, these are dangerous words, and I pray you to forbear them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- To the astonishment of my clerk, I at once decided on granting an interview to the gentleman below. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To these communications Peggotty replied as promptly, if not as concisely, as a merchant's clerk. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You astonish me, Sir; he wos a clerk in a gov'ment office, sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If you just go to the Magpie and Stump, and ask at the bar for Mr. Lowten, they'll show you in to him, and he's Mr. Perker's clerk. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The Stryver clerk, who never assisted at these conferences, had gone home, and the Stryver principal opened the door. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But personal service, by clerk or agent, in these cases, you know, Mr. Pickwick--nothing like caution, sir, in all legal forms--eh? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She remembered the old pew-woman and clerk. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He wants no clerks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Is it any wonder that its captains and commanders and officials, nay, even its clerks and common soldiers, came back to England loaded with spoils? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of his clerks noticing his interest asked what he would give for the bees. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then I asked if there were many clerks? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The clerks had not arrived yet, and he beguiled the time by looking out of the staircase window. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- At this humorous notion, all the clerks laughed in concert. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- All the middle-aged clerks think their families too large. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There are several grades of lawyers' clerks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The clerks and servants cut him off by back-passages, and were found accidentally hovering in doorways and angles, that they might look upon him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I did exactly what he indicated, and waited until the other clerks had departed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I gave him a nickel, and he elbowed his way in; and throwing the money on the counter, the store being filled with women clerks, he said: 'Give me three pairs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The rectors passed to the full front; the parish clerks fell to the extreme rear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She is considered so (I have heard) among the clerks in the Inn, and it is a point more in their way than in mine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The clerks were there, but nobody was doing anything. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Editor: Nancy