Clerical
adjective
Related to work in an office, especially routine document work.
She was tired of her clerical job and left the company.
Often appears as...
- clerical duties
- clerical staff
adjective
Relating to the job or duties of a priest or people in religious orders.
He is looking forward to starting his clerical duties in the parish.
Often appears as...
- clerical collar
- clerical robes
adjective
Relating to a clerical error, which is a minor mistake in a written document.
It was a clerical mistake. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Often appears as...
- clerical mistake
- clerical error
adjective
Relating to clergy dress style.
He always preferred more simple clerical clothing.
Often appears as...
- clerical collar
- clerical attire
adjective
Related to work in an office, especially routine document work.
She was tired of her clerical job and left the company.
Often appears as...
- clerical duties
- clerical staff
adjective
Relating to the job or duties of a priest or people in religious orders.
He is looking forward to starting his clerical duties in the parish.
Often appears as...
- clerical collar
- clerical robes
adjective
Relating to a clerical error, which is a minor mistake in a written document.
It was a clerical mistake. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Often appears as...
- clerical mistake
- clerical error
adjective
Relating to clergy dress style.
He always preferred more simple clerical clothing.
Often appears as...
- clerical collar
- clerical attire
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Office Work
Use 'clerical' to describe repetitive office tasks like filing or data entry.
He handles the clerical work efficiently.
Pro Tip 2/2Non-Management
'Clerical' often implies a position without managerial duties.
Clerical staff usually report to a supervisor.
Pro Tip 1/2Office Work
Use 'clerical' to describe repetitive office tasks like filing or data entry.
He handles the clerical work efficiently.
Pro Tip 2/2Non-Management
'Clerical' often implies a position without managerial duties.
Clerical staff usually report to a supervisor.
Pro Tip 1/2Office Work
Use 'clerical' to describe repetitive office tasks like filing or data entry.
He handles the clerical work efficiently.
Pro Tip 2/2Non-Management
'Clerical' often implies a position without managerial duties.
Clerical staff usually report to a supervisor.
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Will automation take...
cleaning, security, home health aids. Simultaneously, employment is shrinking in many middle-education, middle-wage, middle-class jobs, like blue-collar production and operative positions and white-collar clerical and sales positions.
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viewer and the cooler color means longer distance and the peak it I also can indicate rich and the valley which is also very important for our clerical analysis and
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Eugene Kennedy
American Psychologist
Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.
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Gloria Steinem
American Activist
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
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Newt Gingrich
American Politician
You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?
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David Autor
American Economist
I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.
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Xavier Becerra
American Politician
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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Tori Amos
American Musician
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.
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Richard McCabe
Scottish Actor
I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Roger Mahony
American Clergyman
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
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William P. Leahy
American Educator
The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
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Eugene Kennedy
American Psychologist
Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.
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Gloria Steinem
American Activist
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
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Newt Gingrich
American Politician
You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?
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David Autor
American Economist
I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.
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Xavier Becerra
American Politician
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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Tori Amos
American Musician
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.
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Richard McCabe
Scottish Actor
I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Roger Mahony
American Clergyman
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
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William P. Leahy
American Educator
The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
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