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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Pitcher, confidential clerk in the office of Harvey Maxwell, broker, allowed a look of mild interest and surprise to visit his usually expressionless countenance when his employer briskly entered at half past nine in company with his young lady stenographer.
Matthew did not know that Samuel, in the recent expansion of his business, had set up a lady clerk also; she was a niece of his wife’s and a very dashing young person indeed, with a huge, drooping pompadour, big, rolling brown eyes, and a most extensive and bewildering smile.
Pitcher,” she said to the confidential clerk, “did Mr.
“The clerk Gorot has been shadowed all these nine weeks, but without result.
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