clerk
/klɝk/ noun A2- One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
- A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.
- A law clerk.
- An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.
- The chief legal advisor of a legislature or legislative chamber, who is usually also responsible for keeping minutes of sittings.
- A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
- A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).
Plural clerks
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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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