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clerk English

Meaning clerk meaning

What does clerk mean?
Definitions in simple English

clerk Noun

— 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. — 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. — A desk clerk is the person at a hotel who registers guests. The desk clerk called a taxi for us. — A law clerk is a person, often a junior lawyer, who is the assistant of a judge or another lawyer.

clerk Verb

— 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."

clerk

— noun an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts) — noun (= salesclerk) a salesperson in a store — verb work as a clerk, as in the legal business

Synonyms clerk synonyms

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clerk English » English

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Topics clerk topics

What do people use clerk to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Store, marketplace
Social behavior Law Court of law

Legal personnel
Work and occupation

Occupation

Conjugation clerk conjugation

How do you conjugate clerk?

clerk · verb

Examples clerk examples

How do I use clerk in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Bob worked as a clerk in the grocery store on Saturday.
The clerk was dismissed on the grounds of her rude manners.
The clerk admitted his mistake to me.
My father is a bank clerk.
He married his daughter to a bank clerk.
Her father is a bank clerk.
She was formerly a bank clerk.
She married a bank clerk.
Twelve to fifteen years ago, there lived in the town, in a private home on the main street, a clerk, Gromov - a trustworthy and wealthy man.
Tom tried to return the swimsuit for a larger size, but the clerk told him that wasn't allowed.
Tom works as a bank clerk during the week and as a part-time lifeguard on weekends.
Since the coat Tom tried on was too small, the clerk gave him another one to try on.
In the late 1950's, my mother wanted to buy a bottle of rum, and the clerk at the Ontario liquor store asked her, whether she had a note from her husband.
I'm a bank clerk.
He is nothing more than a clerk.
He is a bank clerk.
At the same time, the clerk Natsue Arimura told Gokijo of his intent to resign after this month.
You'll have to speak to the clerk about that.
Tom started as a mailroom clerk.

Movie subtitles

To the office of the Clerk of the Court of the prison.
Moreover, your unqualified behaviour towards city clerk Hermann Schraat is considered a serious offense against a public administrator.
Akakiy Akakievich Bashmachkin, a clerk of whom it cannot be said that he was very remarkable.
The young clerk chasing the girl was so far a person of no consequence, and yet - rather impetuous.
The clerk who had invited him to tea lived a long distance from Akakiy Akakievich.
I'm not worried about a hotel clerk.
Anyway, Bob isn't a clerk.
One who clerks, Polly, is a clerk, and that settles it.
Like my having been a lady clerk for those people who came here this morning and having been dismissed on suspicion of taking money.
CLERK: Will you sign your name here, please?
CLERK: How about a pillow, sister?
One reason: there's a perfectly charming floor clerk outside who sees everything.
The name was a phony, of course, and I had the clerk downtown, he went over half the pictures in the gallery and couldn't pick anybody, or else he didn't want to.
And entre nous. the desk clerk has intimated. that Mr. Beddini provides Miss Tremont with all the niceties. including her clothes.
This romance with my clerk is more serious than I suspected.
Deal with him as he deserves. Ah, precious set of people ain't you, Trying to buy me clerk over!
Now, you being ship's clerk would you call him a gentle officer?
And I don't trust that clerk of yours.
Who asked you to meddle with my clerk?
Maggs is my clerk.
Mr. Clerk please swear me.
The clerk asked if we wished to speak to his wife.
He's the shipping clerk at the tallow works.
Hey, Mr Clerk, we'd like to see Judge Polk. - lt's very important.
That same bag has been identified as such by the bank clerk who served you. The same clerk..
One reason: there's a perfectly charming floor clerk outside who sees everything. She'd see me enter her room.
The clerk tells me she checked out just a few minutes ago.
The clerk from the kimono store.
Surely you understand that a clerk in a fabric store can't just give away kimono fabric costing over 50 yen.
All the more reason not to get involved with a penniless clerk like Kimura.
No, I'm staying here now, at my clerk's house.
Yes, at the home of his former clerk.
Didn't you swindle that kimono from a clerk?

News and current affairs

The sales clerk's commercially motivated solicitude does lack true charity and altruism.
Or perhaps it will be less dramatic, dawning in the mind of a clerk gazing out the window of a patent office.
The daughter of a government clerk, Mayawati studied law and worked as a teacher before being spotted by the BSP's founder, the late Kanshi Ram, and groomed for political leadership.
Rights are universal and are held only by individuals, which means that a company CEO enjoys them just as much as his office clerk.
In the 1860's, James Clerk Maxwell assembled the equations for electricity and magnetism, as they were then known, and discovered an inconsistency.

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