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document
Noun
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A document is a written record, often official.
They stopped her at the airport and checked all her documents.
A number of Chinese documents from 1000 span size="-2"BCE/span were recently discovered.
On March 28, 1990, the government published a document listing the companies which it intended to privatize.
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A document is a kind of computer text file.
Can you send me that document by e-mail or fax?
We should be able to edit your document using MS Word.
document
Verb
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If you document something, you make a record of it, usually in writing.
It's important for newspaper reporters to be there to document the war.
We have documented number cases in which he has broken company policy.
indexing
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noun
the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve
clerk
Noun
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A clerk is a person who keeps an organization's records.
I called the city clerks office to see if they had a record of her birth.
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A sales clerk is the person in a shop who helps you find things you want to buy.
A convenience store clerk was arrested for selling cigarettes to children.
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A desk clerk is the person at a hotel who registers guests.
The desk clerk called a taxi for us.
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A law clerk is a person, often a junior lawyer, who is the assistant of a judge or another lawyer.
clerk
Verb
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If you clerk, you work as a clerk, especially as a law clerk.
She clerked for the judge in 1992, and says she and her fellow clerks worked "as many hours as we could stay awake, often past midnight and on weekends."