Clerk
noun
A person who works in an office, often doing administrative or paper work.
The clerk filed the documents neatly in the cabinet.
Often appears as...
- office clerk
- desk clerk
noun
A person who works in a retail store, often behind a counter and helping customers.
I asked the store clerk for help locating a product.
Often appears as...
- store clerk
- sales clerk
noun
A person who keeps records or performs general administrative duties.
The town clerk is in charge of maintaining public records for the town.
Often appears as...
- town clerk
- court clerk
noun
A person who is a parliament or court official.
The clerk of the court read out the final judgement.
Often appears as...
- clerk of the court
- clerk of the house
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Formal
noun
A cleric or a member of the clergy.
A clerk in holy orders was preparing to deliver the sermon.
noun
A person who works in an office, often doing administrative or paper work.
The clerk filed the documents neatly in the cabinet.
Often appears as...
- office clerk
- desk clerk
noun
A person who works in a retail store, often behind a counter and helping customers.
I asked the store clerk for help locating a product.
Often appears as...
- store clerk
- sales clerk
noun
A person who keeps records or performs general administrative duties.
The town clerk is in charge of maintaining public records for the town.
Often appears as...
- town clerk
- court clerk
noun
A person who is a parliament or court official.
The clerk of the court read out the final judgement.
Often appears as...
- clerk of the court
- clerk of the house
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A cleric or a member of the clergy.
A clerk in holy orders was preparing to deliver the sermon.
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Pro Tip 1/2Office Role
Refers to employees who handle paperwork, files, and administrative tasks within an office setting.
Our office clerk ensures all our records are up-to-date.
Pro Tip 2/2Not a Manager
A clerk is usually not in a managerial position; they typically report to supervisors.
The clerk completed the task his supervisor assigned.
Pro Tip 1/2Office Role
Refers to employees who handle paperwork, files, and administrative tasks within an office setting.
Our office clerk ensures all our records are up-to-date.
Pro Tip 2/2Not a Manager
A clerk is usually not in a managerial position; they typically report to supervisors.
The clerk completed the task his supervisor assigned.
Pro Tip 1/2Office Role
Refers to employees who handle paperwork, files, and administrative tasks within an office setting.
Our office clerk ensures all our records are up-to-date.
Pro Tip 2/2Not a Manager
A clerk is usually not in a managerial position; they typically report to supervisors.
The clerk completed the task his supervisor assigned.
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We need to talk about an...
hopeful well I went into the courtroom soon as I walked inside the judge saw me coming and he said mr. Stevenson did you write this crazy motion I said yes sir I didn't we started arguing people started coming in because they were just outraged I had written these crazy things and police officers were coming in and system prosecutors and clerk
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Everything you need to...
by hanging her rear end out the window for him to kiss. When this appears not to work, her scholar decides to try farting in the same position, but this time, the clerk is waiting with a red-hot poker. This might all sound like a bawdy joke, but it’s part of one of the most esteemed works of English literature ever
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Ash Beckham: When to...
At the same time, there's nothing more important to me than the kids in my life, so I found myself in a situation that we so often find ourselves in, torn between two things, two impossible choices. Would I be an advocate? Would I take my niece off my shoulders and turn to the clerk and explain to her
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What will future jobs...
is that the world is an interesting place and my job is to go explore it. The school stopped in third grade, so then I entered the public school system, and it felt like I had been sent to the Gulag. With the benefit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clerk or a laborer,
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Bryan Stevenson: We need...
I said, "Yes, sir. I did." And we started arguing. And people started coming in, just outraged I'd written these crazy things. And police officers were coming in and assistant prosecutors and clerk workers. Before I knew it, the courtroom was filled with people angry that we were talking about race,
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Einstein's miracle year...
and neglecting to show proper deference to his professors had derailed his intended career path. Passed over even for a lab assistant position, he had to settle for a job at the Swiss patent office, obtained with the help of a friend's father. Working six days a week as a patent clerk,
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Why jobs of the future...
they read scripts. They act more like machines than humans. And unfortunately, over the next few years, as our technology gets more advanced, they, along with people like clerks and bookkeepers, will see the vast majority of their work disappear.
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POW Escape Thwarted PIPE...
just can't do that that'll be an international scandal and based on that Hitler backed off he said well okay then shoot fifty percent and I always thought it was ironic just the way history works out that some clerk or somebody dropped
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Reducing corruption...
Now thankfully, the person was caught, arrested and charged to court. When I get into court, the clerks who were assigned to my sister's case informed her that they wouldn't be able to process the paperwork unless she paid a bribe.
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The tyranny of merit PIPE...
Today's pandemic makes this clear. It reveals how deeply we rely on workers we often overlook. Delivery workers, maintenance workers, grocery store clerks, warehouse workers, truckers,
Video examples
We need to talk about an...
hopeful well I went into the courtroom soon as I walked inside the judge saw me coming and he said mr. Stevenson did you write this crazy motion I said yes sir I didn't we started arguing people started coming in because they were just outraged I had written these crazy things and police officers were coming in and system prosecutors and clerk
Video examples
Everything you need to...
by hanging her rear end out the window for him to kiss. When this appears not to work, her scholar decides to try farting in the same position, but this time, the clerk is waiting with a red-hot poker. This might all sound like a bawdy joke, but it’s part of one of the most esteemed works of English literature ever
Video examples
Ash Beckham: When to...
At the same time, there's nothing more important to me than the kids in my life, so I found myself in a situation that we so often find ourselves in, torn between two things, two impossible choices. Would I be an advocate? Would I take my niece off my shoulders and turn to the clerk and explain to her
Video examples
What will future jobs...
is that the world is an interesting place and my job is to go explore it. The school stopped in third grade, so then I entered the public school system, and it felt like I had been sent to the Gulag. With the benefit of hindsight, I now know the job was to prepare me for life as a clerk or a laborer,
Video examples
Bryan Stevenson: We need...
I said, "Yes, sir. I did." And we started arguing. And people started coming in, just outraged I'd written these crazy things. And police officers were coming in and assistant prosecutors and clerk workers. Before I knew it, the courtroom was filled with people angry that we were talking about race,
Video examples
Einstein's miracle year...
and neglecting to show proper deference to his professors had derailed his intended career path. Passed over even for a lab assistant position, he had to settle for a job at the Swiss patent office, obtained with the help of a friend's father. Working six days a week as a patent clerk,
Video examples
Why jobs of the future...
they read scripts. They act more like machines than humans. And unfortunately, over the next few years, as our technology gets more advanced, they, along with people like clerks and bookkeepers, will see the vast majority of their work disappear.
Video examples
POW Escape Thwarted PIPE...
just can't do that that'll be an international scandal and based on that Hitler backed off he said well okay then shoot fifty percent and I always thought it was ironic just the way history works out that some clerk or somebody dropped
Video examples
Reducing corruption...
Now thankfully, the person was caught, arrested and charged to court. When I get into court, the clerks who were assigned to my sister's case informed her that they wouldn't be able to process the paperwork unless she paid a bribe.
Video examples
The tyranny of merit PIPE...
Today's pandemic makes this clear. It reveals how deeply we rely on workers we often overlook. Delivery workers, maintenance workers, grocery store clerks, warehouse workers, truckers,
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Sandi Toksvig
British Writer
The truth is I don't really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer cash. I don't like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my 'consumer profile.' I'm anti all cards.
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Sabaa Tahir
Pakistani Writer
When I was a kid, I worked as a clerk at my parent's motel. From when I was eight or nine, I rented rooms, helped with laundry, folding tons of towels. And then I also worked at my dad's gas station more as a young adult and as an adult.
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Robert Mueller
American Public Servant
And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.
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Peter Drucker
American Businessman
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.
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Jaime Harrison
American Politician
The reality is that front-line workers like restaurant servers, bus drivers and retail store clerks - whose jobs require person-to-person interactions - do not have the luxury of being able to 'work from home.
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Wallace Shawn
American Actor
After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
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Joycelyn Elders
American Public Servant
You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.
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Keith Allen
Welsh Actor
If everybody was a bank clerk, then I would be a rebel. But if everyone was a rebel, then I promise you I would go out of my way to be a bank clerk.
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John Paul Stevens
Judge
I always prided myself on my ability to choose good clerks, and one of the key elements was whether I thought I would like the person.
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Lisa McMann
American Author
I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.
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Sandi Toksvig
British Writer
The truth is I don't really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer cash. I don't like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my 'consumer profile.' I'm anti all cards.
Quote examples
Sabaa Tahir
Pakistani Writer
When I was a kid, I worked as a clerk at my parent's motel. From when I was eight or nine, I rented rooms, helped with laundry, folding tons of towels. And then I also worked at my dad's gas station more as a young adult and as an adult.
Quote examples
Robert Mueller
American Public Servant
And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.
Quote examples
Peter Drucker
American Businessman
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.
Quote examples
Jaime Harrison
American Politician
The reality is that front-line workers like restaurant servers, bus drivers and retail store clerks - whose jobs require person-to-person interactions - do not have the luxury of being able to 'work from home.
Quote examples
Wallace Shawn
American Actor
After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
Quote examples
Joycelyn Elders
American Public Servant
You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.
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Keith Allen
Welsh Actor
If everybody was a bank clerk, then I would be a rebel. But if everyone was a rebel, then I promise you I would go out of my way to be a bank clerk.
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John Paul Stevens
Judge
I always prided myself on my ability to choose good clerks, and one of the key elements was whether I thought I would like the person.
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Lisa McMann
American Author
I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.
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