| 单词 | city clerk |
| 释义 | > as lemmascity clerk city clerk n. (a) a clerk who works in a city; (b) an officer who has charge of the records, correspondence, and accounts of a city, and superintends the general conduct of its business; cf. town clerk n. 1. ΚΠ 1656 in J. Phillips Sportive Wit ii. 38 It is my will The City Clerks should have a quill, To write such learned speeches still. 1797 Diary (N.Y.) 7 Mar. 1/4 To that end [they] will receive Proposals, sealed, at the City-Clerk's office. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 140 ‘If this other wench,’ said the city-clerk, ‘can speak to her sister.’ 1910 Times 18 May 10/4 No doubt to be a city clerk is to be a kind of slave. 2004 Daily Tel. 18 May 12/8 The first couple..were pronounced married by the city clerk of Cambridge at 9.15am. < as lemmas |
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