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clerical error
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A clerical error is an error on the part of an office worker, often a secretary or personal assistant. It is a phrase which can also be used as an excuse to deflect blame away from specific individuals, such as high powered executives, and instead redirect it to the more anonymous clerical staff.
A clerical error in a legal document is called a scrivener's error.
Usage examples of "clerical error".
He'd had to check a half dozen hotels before he'd found one with an open room of the same number, so that the clerical error would stand up all the way down the line.
But owing to a clerical error, Lieutenant Colonel Earl Comstock's name was not on the list, and so a difference of opinion ensued that culminated with one of the Marines drawing his Colt .
If Solaria hasnt signed over anything, its simply a clerical error.
Was it a clerical error, Coren asked, when you divested your personal holdings in Nova Levis?
It no longer seemed a clerical error that my name had not been on the list to go down to the surface at Outpost.
If there has been a clerical error, there's virtually nothing that can be done about it.
Through clerical error, this officer was advanced one credit in excess of a year's advance pay.
Only twice had he caught such irregularities, and on one of those occasions his supervisors had told him to ignore it as a clerical error—.