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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clerk
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bank clerk (=a junior worker in a bank)
▪ He began his career as a bank clerk.
clerk of works
desk clerk
parish clerk
town clerk
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
articled
▪ Firms began to poach partners and to recruit dozens of assistant solicitors and articled clerks.
▪ They then knock at solicitors' doors, presenting their credentials and asking if there is a vacancy for an articled clerk.
▪ The defendants' articled clerk handled the wife's affairs and negotiated a financial settlement with the husband's solicitors.
▪ Opposite to David's desk stood a smaller one occupied by the articled clerk.
▪ Then Hubert was going to be an articled clerk, straight after school.
▪ He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor.
chief
▪ These people might include the chief clerks and foremen who control the dally ordering, production and distribution processes.
▪ The chief executive or clerk of the authority will tell the councillor when they apply to him.
▪ That evening he sat by his fireside with his chief clerk, Mr Guest, beside him.
▪ If he requires information he should approach the chief executive or clerk of the council for it.
▪ He should not seek information from other local authorities except through the chief executive or clerk of his own council.
▪ There is no necessity to appoint a legally qualified chief executive or clerk.
junior
▪ Payments are probably dealt with by some junior clerk who applies his or her own interpretation of what the company wants.
▪ He was junior clerk under Peter Marro.
▪ Before the Treasury was rehoused at the end of Whitehall its junior clerks were scratching here at their ledgers.
▪ Fred obtained a position as a junior shipping clerk over many other applicants by being smarter than they were.
▪ The junior clerk in the Profitboss's team is a prospect.
▪ Each of these six departments had two or three clerks or junior clerks to assist them in the work.
▪ It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph, as a junior clerk.
▪ He first appears in the records as a junior clerk or singing-man in Henry VI's chapel royal, in 1441.
royal
▪ He became a royal clerk, probably by July 1359, certainly by 1361.
▪ The acquisition of Templar estates and of alien priories likewise enlarged the openings for royal clerks.
▪ Many farms were let out to royal clerks and lay servants - another aspect of crown patronage.
senior
▪ Beyond this opened a small glass-sided cubicle from which a senior clerk could watch for frivolity among the underlings.
▪ A senior clerk should clear the machines and then reset them to zero at various times during the day.
▪ He is a senior bank clerk and lives in London.
young
▪ There was a young clerk on duty on his own.
■ NOUN
bank
▪ He was forced to leave school at 16 and go to work as a bank clerk.
▪ He was the son of Samuel Odle, bank clerk.
▪ Teller robbed bank for love A BANK clerk robbed the till of £850,000 to keep her married boyfriend in luxury.
▪ My father was a bank clerk, the son of a dispensing chemist.
▪ Why was the bank clerk sitting up a tree?
▪ Eventually, I got a job as bank clerk in London when the banks went on a recruiting drive in Ireland.
▪ He is a senior bank clerk and lives in London.
city
▪ The top spot goes to the candidate whose petitions are fled first with the city clerk.
▪ The confidential world of the city clerk persists in Eliot's poorest play which looks again to Victorian melodrama.
▪ They manned the desk of the city clerk and peopled a phantom orchestra.
▪ There's also a letter from the Lemon Grove city clerk, peppered with profanity, that she never wrote.
county
▪ Others hold office as county clerk, assessor, or recorder of deeds and a few are congressmen and state legislators.
▪ The county clerk has traditionally performed civil marriages.
▪ This time it was the county clerk, with less than a year left of his four-year term.
▪ The inmate simply fills out a proxy form and mails it to the county clerk.
▪ This time they prevailed, and Daley agreed to be slated for county clerk.
court
▪ There was a packed public gallery as the charges were formally read out by the court clerk.
▪ Once an item is introduced in a trial, court clerks assume custody of it, locking it in a courthouse cabinet.
▪ One alternate juror choked with grief and accepted the water and tissues from a concerned court clerk.
desk
▪ The desk clerk was a worried, grey-haired man with steel-rimmed glasses and a medal.
▪ Al Perry, Hotel Congress desk clerk.
▪ There was no desk clerk in the notebook.
▪ On the third night, she went up ahead while he uncorked a bottle and shared it with the desk clerk.
▪ The same desk clerk was on duty when Kragan left the hotel two hours later, at nine in the evening.
▪ It had to be the desk clerk.
▪ At the time, he said, Jackson was working as a desk clerk at the hotel.
file
▪ The file clerk must have a great deal of trouble with it.
▪ Get whatever the file clerk will give you in the prenatal area and what you get, reduce.
▪ Usually the file clerk hands out material on the basis of time and topic.
▪ The file clerk hands out the scalding.
▪ Go prenatal as far as you can and see what the file clerk will hand forth.
▪ Do not try to erase anything as remote from basic-basic as birth unless the file clerk insists on presenting birth.
▪ You and his file clerk know.
▪ Birth will come up when it will come up and the file clerk knows his business.
law
▪ A 23-year-old woman law clerk has appeared in court charged with helping him escape and harbouring him.
▪ On either side are two courtrooms and adjoining chambers and law clerk offices.
office
▪ The driver had not seen anyone on the platform and neither had the booking office clerk.
▪ Crawford, as a post office clerk further down the cast, was paid just 350 for five weeks' work.
parish
▪ The parish clerk was asked to report the matter to the area surveyor.
store
▪ The store clerk is about to call the police.
▪ This facility is intended to help a few hundred families living in public housing by training them to be grocery store clerks.
town
▪ The fourth was town clerk, solicitor J. F. Cooper.
▪ The town clerk, SiL Mr Sheets.
▪ This was in accordance with the advice of senior officers, including town clerk John Cobley.
▪ I pretty much have to hire whatever walks through that door if the town clerk sends him up.
■ VERB
become
▪ Mostly teenagers, they were led to believe that if they worked hard they would become clerks or even dealers.
▪ On leaving school he became a clerk.
▪ He became a royal clerk, probably by July 1359, certainly by 1361.
▪ In 1273 he became a king's clerk.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a clerk at a convenience store
▪ Please return your keys to the clerk at the front desk.
▪ Right now I am working as a law clerk downtown.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the ValuJet counter, two clerks tried to pay attention to their immediate task: putting people on other ValuJet flights.
▪ Benefices, however, were not the only church assets which the king exploited for his clerks.
▪ He cooked for himself and for others, eventually branching out to jobs as a wine clerk and private chef.
▪ His signature was duly witnessed by two of the clerks in the firm.
▪ The clerk on that day was Miss Claire Robinson.
▪ There are groups of employees with specific job specialties, such as cashiers, stock clerks, and meat-cutters.
▪ We went to eat lunch in a restaurant frequented by poorly paid clerks and secretaries and, no doubt, messengers.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He clerked in a cigar shop.
▪ He was a great role model-he had even clerked for Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clerk

Clerk \Clerk\ (kl[~e]rk; in Eng. kl[aum]rk; 277), n. [Either OF. clerc, fr. L. clericus a priest, or AS. clerc, cleric, clerk, priest, fr. L. clericus, fr. Gr. klhriko`s belonging to the clergy, fr. klh^ros lot, allotment, clergy; cf. Deut. xviii. 2. Cf. Clergy.]

  1. A clergyman or ecclesiastic. [Obs.]

    All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ.
    --Ayliffe.

  2. A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters. [Obs.] ``Every one that could read . . . being accounted a clerk.''
    --Blackstone.

    He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe.
    --Burke.

  3. A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. [Eng.]
    --Hook.

    And like unlettered clerk still cry ``Amen''.
    --Shak.

  4. One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.

    The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill.
    --Strype.

    Note: In some cases, clerk is synonymous with secretary. A clerk is always an officer subordinate to a higher officer, board, corporation, or person; whereas a secretary may be either a subordinate or the head of an office or department.

  5. An assistant in a shop or store. [U. S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clerk

"man ordained in the ministry," c.1200, from Old English cleric and Old French clerc "clergyman, priest; scholar, student," both from Church Latin clericus "a priest," noun use of adjective meaning "priestly, belonging to the clerus" (see cleric).\n

\nModern bureaucratic usage is a reminder of the dark ages when clergy alone could read and write and were employed for that skill by secular authorities. In late Old English the word can mean "king's scribe; keeper of accounts;" by c.1200 clerk took on a secondary sense in Middle English (as the cognate word did in Old French) of "anyone who can read or write." This led to the sense "assistant in a business" (c.1500), originally a keeper of accounts, later, especially in American English, "a retail salesman" (1790). Related: Clerkship.

clerk

"act as a clerk," 1550s, from clerk (n.). Related: Clerked, clerking.

Wiktionary
clerk

n. 1 One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker. 2 A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs. 3 (lb en archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called ''parish clerk''). vb. To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk

WordNet
clerk
  1. n. an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)

  2. a salesperson in a store [syn: salesclerk, shop clerk]

clerk

v. work as a clerk, as in the legal business

Wikipedia
Clerk

A clerk ( or ) is a white-collar worker who conducts general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment (a retail clerk). The responsibilities of clerical workers commonly include record keeping, filing, staffing service counters, screening solicitors, and other administrative tasks.

Clerk (Quaker)

Within the Religious Society of Friends, a clerk is someone responsible for various administrative functions within a meeting for worship for church affairs or meeting for worship for business. The clerk is responsible for recording the discernment which a meeting for worship for church affairs has reached, in a minute, and is responsible for sending and receiving correspondence on behalf of the meeting. Within some branches of the Religious Society of Friends, the clerk may also create an agenda and may facilitate the meeting.

Friends record minutes contemporaneously, with each minute written in the meeting for worship for church affairs. At the end of each item, the clerk will present a draft minute, ask the meeting if they accept the minute, and the final minute will only be recorded when all Friends present feel that the minute is an accurate record of what has happened. When members of the meeting accept the minute, they will nod their heads or say "approve", or "hope so" in Britain (see Quaker terminology).

In some Quaker groups, there may be more than one person performing clerking roles, for example the role of facilitating the meeting may be separate from recording minutes. In this case different names may be given to the different clerks - e.g. co-clerk, recording clerk, presiding clerk, assistant clerk, reading clerk, epistle clerk, correspondence clerk.

Some Friends groups, particularly ones who do not have regular minuted meetings for worship for business may have some of the roles usually carried out by a clerk carried out by a correspondent (who is responsible for sending and receiving correspondence on behalf of the meeting) or a convenor (who is responsible for bringing people together for a meeting - this is a term often used for someone who co-ordinates a committee).

In Quaker meetings, there are often committees and temporary working groups that perform duties and oversee activities of the meeting. Most committees will have their own clerk or convenor who will convene meetings and record minutes.

Clerk (disambiguation)

A clerk is someone who works in an office. A retail clerk works in a store.

Clerk (municipal official)

A clerk is a senior official of many municipal governments in the English-speaking world. In some communities, the position is elected, but in many others, the clerk is appointed to their post. In almost all cases, the actual title of the clerk reflects the type of municipality he or she works for, thus, instead of simply being known as the clerk, the position is generally referred to as the town clerk, township clerk, city clerk, village clerk, borough clerk, board secretary, or county clerk. Other titles also exist. The office has existed for centuries, though in some places it is now being merged with other positions.

The duties of a municipal clerk vary even more than their titles. Particularly in the United States, it is difficult to fully describe a clerk's duties, because there are hundreds of different jobs a clerk may fulfill. In some U.S. states, there are provisions in the state constitutions delineating the clerk's duties, but in other states, each municipality decides for itself what role the clerk plays, or even, if there need be a clerk at all.

Clerk (legislature)

The Clerk, Chief Clerk, or Secretary of a chamber or house in a legislature is the senior administrative officer responsible for ensuring that its business runs smoothly. This may encompass keeping custody of documents lain before the house, received, or produced; making records of proceedings; allocating office space; enrolling of members, and administering an oath of office. The Clerk in some cases has a ceremonial role. A Clerk may also advise the speaker or members on parliamentary procedure, acting in American parlance as a " parliamentarian".

In the Westminster system, the Clerk is usually an apolitical civil servant, and typically attains the position through promotion and retains it till retirement.

In the United States, while clerks are usually nonpartisan, they are often elected by the assembly members at the beginning of each term. At the federal level, and typically at state level, the lower House has a "(Chief) Clerk" while the Senate has a "Secretary".

Legislature

Clerk of sole or lower house

Clerk of upper house

Notes

Parliament of Australia

Clerk

Clerk

Parliament of Canada

Clerk

Clerk

Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Clerk

N/A

Unicameral

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Clerk

Clerk of the Parliaments

— National Assembly for Wales

Chief Executive and Clerk

N/A

Unicameral

— Tynwald (Isle of Man)

Clerk

N/A

Unicameral

United States Congress

Clerk

Secretary

Elected every two years.

— California State Legislature

Chief Clerk

Secretary

Elected every two years.

Clerk (1989 film)

Clerk is a Hindi movie, which was released in 1989. The film was written, produced, directed by and starred Manoj Kumar alongside an ensemble cast including Rekha, Anita Raj, Shashi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Prem Chopra, Sonu Walia as well as Pakistani actors Mohammed Ali and Zeba in their first and only Hindi film appearance. The film did not do well at the box office and was Manoj Kumar's last film featuring him in the leading role. After this film he made one last film appearance playing a small part in Maidan-E-Jung in 1995. This movie has, over the years, been ridiculed for its awful direction and editing.

Usage examples of "clerk".

Clerk Advowson at his reading-desk below called the number of the first hymn and the service began.

Henry was strong enough only six years after the death of Thomas to win control over a vast amount of important property by insisting that questions of advowson should be tried in the secular courts, and that the murderers of clerks should be punished by the common law.

But Sylvia Height was still there, and she sat on a stool next to a clerk arranging an ambulance transport from a nursing home.

So he is going to be articled to the Roxham lawyers, Foster and Son, or rather Foster and Bellamy, for young Bellamy, who is a lawyer by profession, came here this morning, not to speak about you, but on a message from the firm to say that he is now a junior partner, and that they will be very happy to take George as an articled clerk.

Having blotted the last copy, Brassey rang for two clerks to witness the signatures.

Mary, he told himself, knew decidedly more of whoring than of clerking, and as the mistress of a brothel as well as his bookkeeper she would be tied to him for ever.

Unlike the clerk, he was direct, brusk, and looked everyone in the eye.

It is the story, told in great detail and in a style intensely saturated with phonetic and rhythmical expressiveness, of a government clerk who goes mad, obsessed by the idea that a fellow clerk has usurped his identity.

I have a companion, I may venture to enlarge it, but for today, you may try your hand at housewifery and clerking.

The Itekkillykx were a fractious litigious bunch, but the Gurns were the best managed of any on Rallen, high standards of courtesy and competence demanded of all, from the most minor clerks to the High Justicer herself.

Bonnie was a manicurist in the barbershop of the Peabody Hotel, where her husband worked as the night desk clerk.

John whether he knew anything of a certain Margari who was soliciting the post of a clerk in the district court and gave as his reference the Lapussa family in whose service he had been for some years.

Agent Martingale had apparently finished asking questions and was now talking at length, for the admissions clerk had her mouth shut and her eyes open.

Senate clerks entered the chamber, deserted now save for Scaurus and Merula, who had fallen behind.

The business prospered well enough to eventually allow them to open a millinery and even to employ a clerk.