clerk
/klɝk/ verb C2- To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk. · The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
- To assemble information about a patient during their initial assessment by actions such as a taking a detailed medical history and performing a physical examination.
He/she/it clerks · Past clerked · Past participle clerked · -ing form clerking
Verb forms
- Base form
- clerk
- He/she/it
- clerks
- Past
- clerked
- Past participle
- clerked
- -ing form
- clerking
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Yes, yes, to mine; gad, he was not so proud then,—he was an under-clerk to the good M.
They don’t seem to have taken any very particular stock of him; but still the porter, the clerk, and the chambermaid are all agreed that this about covers the points.
He was twenty-seven years of age, unmarried, and a clerk at Woolwich Arsenal.”
And yet here we find them in the pocket of a dead junior clerk in the heart of London.
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