[ 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
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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
  • 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.
  • The reception clerk consulted a colleague.
  • The lawyers, policemen and bailiffs grinned, along with the clerk.
  • 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.
  • Their attempt to bribe the clerk had failed.
  • He started as a clerk but gradually rose in the pecking order.
  • From almost two hundred field offices, more than two thousand special agents teletyped all new data daily to Headquarters in Washington, where an army of clerks indexed it for easy retrieval.
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