Clerks Meaning and Definition

Word: Clerks

How to pronounce: klɑːk

Noun

Definitions:

1. A person employed in an office or bank to keep records, accounts, and undertake other routine administrative duties.

Example sentences: "A bank clerk"

2. A receptionist in a hotel.An assistant in a shop.

Example sentences: "She approached the desk and the clerk looked down at her"

3. A member of the clergy.

Example sentences: "He had been due to appear before a diocesan Consistory Court on 21 charges of conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders and one of serious, persistent or continuous neglect of duty."

4. A literate or scholarly person.

Verb

Definitions:

1. Work as a clerk.

Example sentences: "Eleven of those who left college this year are clerking in auction stores"

Synonyms:

secretary

scribe

registrar

desk clerk

receptionist

employee

office worker

servant

bureaucrat

saleslady

salesgirl

saleswoman

shop clerk

shop assistant

filing clerk

office manager

chief clerk

steward

counterman

salesman

salesclerk

deacon

ecclesiastic

Derivations:

clerical

clerkship

clerking

clerkly

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Clerks in Other Languages...

Spanish: Secretario

German: Schreiber

French: Greffier

Italian: Impiegato

Turkish: Kâtip