clerk

IPA: kɫˈɝk

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.
(Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
(archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk and Bible clerk).
(dated) 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).
(obsolete) A scholar.
A surname.

To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk.
(medicine) 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.

Examples of "clerk" in Sentences

That shipping clerk is always Señor García, never Juan.
The perky clerk is Julie Piekarski, an original cast member of “The Facts of Life.”
Prosecutors had argued for incarceration for Sansoni, who also served as a title clerk at
Sansoni, a title clerk, worked for a small title company that went bust because of the theft.
He feels that having one career clerk and one term clerk allows his chamber to run much more smoothly.
In England in medieval times the term clerk acquired in common parlance the significance of an educated man.
"It's like someone died," said Melissa Mattero, 37, the title clerk, who handles the paperwork on completed sales.
The title clerk was in too big of a hurry to ask one question and ended up doing the search on the wrong address, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development was overcharged by $1,900!
Disturbed by these losses, whenever for the future he had a mind to purchase an estate for himself, he gave the original writings to his principal clerk, who made a correct transcript of them; this transcript was then handed to Sir Anthony, and five guineas (his fee) along with it, which was regularly _charged to him by the clerk_.