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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
desk clerk
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Al Perry, Hotel Congress desk clerk.
▪ At the time, he said, Jackson was working as a desk clerk at the hotel.
▪ It had to be the desk clerk.
▪ On the third night, she went up ahead while he uncorked a bottle and shared it with the desk clerk.
▪ The desk clerk was a worried, grey-haired man with steel-rimmed glasses and a medal.
▪ The same desk clerk was on duty when Kragan left the hotel two hours later, at nine in the evening.
▪ There was no desk clerk in the notebook.
WordNet
desk clerk

n. a hotel receptionist [syn: hotel desk clerk, hotel clerk]

Usage examples of "desk clerk".

He'd end up in the foyer feeding drinks to the goddamn desk clerk.

It was early for a whorehouse: the desk clerk was asleep, a guard in a tuxedo was reading the Daily Racing Form, ball point in hand, and an Arab sheik was wandering drunkenly around, apparently trying to choose amongst several throw rugs as to which would be best to use for morning prayer.

Because of the heat of summer the front door was open and he was able to stand upright on the top of the three steps that led to the street, out of the line of sight of the desk clerk.

The desk clerk from the Alhambra, looking pale and narrow and suspicious of every living thing in the universe, came out with a large stack of mail.

He fully expected the five men to rush into the hotel, question the desk clerk, take up positions and make their moves.

They were over at your hotel asking for you and the desk clerk said you'd be here.

The minute he had seen the desk clerk deliver the envelope to the offices, Terry had begun to move.