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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Pitcher,” she said to the confidential clerk, “did Mr.
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.
Time was when he would take my advice, but now he just buys things for Anne regardless, and the clerks at Carmody know they can palm anything off on him.
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