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   clerk

   /klɑːk/

   noun

   • 1. a person employed in an office or bank to keep records, accounts, and undertake other routine administrative duties: "a bank clerk"
   • ▪ an official in charge of the records of a local council or court: "a clerk to the magistrates"
   • ▪ a senior official in Parliament.
   • ▪ a lay officer of a cathedral, parish church, college chapel, etc.: "a chapter clerk"
   • 2. a receptionist in a hotel: North American "she approached the desk and the clerk looked down at her"
   • ▪ an assistant in a shop: "a clerk in an ice-cream store"
   • 3. a member of the clergy. formal
   • 4. a literate or scholarly person. archaic

   verb

   • 1. work as a clerk: North American "eleven of those who left college this year are clerking in auction stores"

   Word Origin Old Englishcleric, clerc (in the sense ‘ordained minister, literate person’), from ecclesiastical Latin clericus ‘clergyman’ (see cleric); reinforced by Old French clerc, from the same source. clerk (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the early 16th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. clerkdom noun
   • 2. clerkish adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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