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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024clerk /klɜrk/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a person employed to keep records or perform general tasks in an office, etc.:worked as a law clerk for a judge.
- a salesclerk:Ask another clerk about finding your size.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024clerk (klûrk; Brit. klärk),USA pronunciation n. - a person employed, as in an office, to keep records, file, type, or perform other general office tasks.
- a salesclerk.
- a person who keeps the records and performs the routine business of a court, legislature, board, etc.
- Religiona member of the clergy;
ecclesiastic. - Religiona lay person charged with various minor ecclesiastical duties.
- [Archaic.]
- a person who is able to read, or to read and write.
- a scholar.
v.i. - to act or serve as a clerk.
- Late Latin clēricus cleric
- Middle English, Old English clerc, variant of cleric bef. 1000
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: clerk /klɑːk; US: Canadian: klɜːrk/ n - a worker, esp in an office, who keeps records, files, etc
- clerk to the justices ⇒ (in England) a legally qualified person who sits in court with lay justices to advise them on points of law
- an employee of a court, legislature, board, corporation, etc, who keeps records and accounts, etc: a town clerk
- Also called: clerk in holy orders a cleric
- US Canadian
short for salesclerk - Also called: desk clerk US Canadian a hotel receptionist
- archaic a scholar
vb - (intransitive) to serve as a clerk
Etymology: Old English clerc, from Church Latin clēricus, from Greek klērikos cleric, relating to the heritage (alluding to the Biblical Levites, whose inheritance was the Lord), from klēros heritageˈclerkish adj ˈclerkship n |