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bought
noun
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(obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
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(obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
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(obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
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(obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
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(obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
ledger
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noun
(= book)
a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
they got a subpoena to examine our books
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noun
(= daybook)
an accounting journal as a physical object
he bought a new daybook
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."