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[ UK /klˈɑːk/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫɝk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a salesperson in a store
  2. an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)
VERB
  1. work as a clerk, as in the legal business

How To Use clerk In A Sentence

  • This facility is intended to help a few hundred families living in public housing by training them to be grocery store clerks.
  • “Come, come, clerk,” continued he, “catechise him a little on this subject.” The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • Their attempt to bribe the clerk had failed.
  • The reception clerk consulted a colleague.
  • The lawyers, policemen and bailiffs grinned, along with the clerk.
  • The mock-up design featured access by ramps to all raised spaces, including the judge's bench, witness stand, jury box, and clerk stations.
  • Most rural stations had a staff of at least six, and perhaps up to a dozen, who them carried out the duties of stationmaster, signalman, booking clerk, ticket collector, porter, shunter, lengthman and lampman.
  • She recently wrapped up a prestigious year-long stint clerking for Judge Leonie M. Brinkema at the federal court in Alexandria -- but, no, said she couldn't discuss any of the cases she worked on. Cate Edwards lands first law firm job, joins the ranks of Washington lawyers
  • The pet shop clerk had been helpful, showing him an assortment of mice and guinea pigs and even a pair of canaries, but in the end, Enoch had settled on the brown-and-white hamster.
  • He started as a clerk but gradually rose in the pecking order.
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