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head
Noun
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The head is the highest and most important part of the body.
He put his head on the desk and fell asleep.
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The head Is the owner of something.
After the problems, the head of the company left.
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The bathroom on a ship is called the head.
head
Verb
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To go in a direction is to head there.
Bill heads for the mall after work.
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."