clerknoun [ C ]
uk/klɑːk/us/klɝːk/a person who works in an office, dealing with records or performing general office duties:
a filing clerk
a junior office clerk
US also salesclerk a person who serves customers in a shop:
Take your purchases to the clerk, and he will wrap them for you.
US also desk clerk a hotel employee who deals with guests when they arrive:
The clerk checked us in and gave us our key.
US also law clerk a person who works with a judge and helps the judge make decisions
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- shiftwork
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- unpaid
- wilderness
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People who sell things
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clerkverb [ I ]
uk/klɑːk/us/klɝːk/to work as a clerk:
Debbie has a summer job clerking in an office.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- shiftwork
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- unpaid
- wilderness
See more results »
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Servants, slaves & underlings