clerk-ale English

Meaning clerk-ale meaning

What does clerk-ale mean?

clerk-ale noun

— (UK, obsolete) A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.

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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.