Definitions for Clerk

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Clerk clerk

Spelling: [klurk; British klahrk]

IPA: /klɜrk; British klɑrk/

Clerk is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in Clerk (ceklr).

Definitions for Clerk

noun

1. a person employed, as in an office, to keep records, file, type, or perform other general office tasks.
2. a salesclerk.
3. a person who keeps the records and performs the routine business of a court, legislature, board, etc.
4. law clerk.
5. a member of the clergy; ecclesiastic.
6. a lay person charged with various minor ecclesiastical duties.
7. Archaic. a person who is able to read, or to read and write. a scholar.

verb (used without object)

1. to act or serve as a clerk.

Origin of Clerk

before 1000; Middle English, Old English clerc, variant of cleric Late Latin clēricus cleric

Examples for Clerk

Her new friends jump to her defense and loudly tell the clerk to back off.

clerk or no, you have acted this day as becomes a true knight.

Judge Hinkle said “the Constitution requires the clerk to issue such licenses.”

As a way to be more available to needy souls outside the church, Williams took a clerk job at Walgreens pharmacy.

His letter was from his wife's brother, in whose bank Cornelius was a clerk.

Bob Cratchit, the clerk who is the father of Tiny Tim and who meekly serves Scrooge, is paid fifteen shillings a week.

He had travelled, and had been a merchant's clerk in Paris and London.

Was the gentleman” (he chose that word as he looked at the boys) “layman or clerk?

But instead of talking to us and resolving the issue, or getting a manager involved, the clerk calls the cops.

He needs a clerk for his law matters, and the Dean said he would speak of me to him.