The meaning of Clerk

Clerk – definition

noun
A person employed in an office or bank to keep records, accounts, and undertake other routine administrative duties.
Usage examples:
A bank clerk
Synonims:
Office worker Clerical worker Administrator Administrative officer Bookkeeper Record keeper Account keeper Cashier Teller Babu Pen-pusher Scrivener
noun
A receptionist in a hotel.
Usage examples:
She approached the desk and the clerk looked down at her
noun
A member of the clergy.
Usage examples:
He had been due to appear before a diocesan consistory court on 21 charges of conduct unbecoming a …
noun
A literate or scholarly person.
Usage examples:
Asked why he teaches, kadish quoted a line from the general prologue of chaucer's canterbury tales …

verb
Work as a clerk.
Usage examples:
Eleven of those who left college this year are clerking in auction stores

noun
A person who works in an office, dealing with records or performing general office duties
Usage examples:
The sales clerk helped me find a sweater in my size.

noun
A person who works in an office, dealing with records or performing general office duties
Usage examples:
Filing/wage/accounts clerk, a junior office clerk, the clerk checked us in and gave us our key., ta…

Clerk translation into English

Clerk: translate from English into Chinese

文员, 书记, 营业员

Clerk: translate from English into Dutch

Griffier, Bediende, Klerk, Kantoorbediende, Winkelbediende, Secretaris, Schrijver

Clerk: translate from English into French

Employé de bureau, Greffier, Employé, Vendeur, Fonctionnaire, Vendeuse, Prêtre, Travailler dans un bureau, Travailler comme vendeur

Clerk: translate from English into German

Sachbearbeiter, Schreiber, Verkäufer, Beamte, Büroangestellte, Kassierer, Schriftführer

Clerk: translate from English into Hindi

क्लर्क, मुंशी, अफ़सर, लिपक

Clerk: translate from English into Italian

Impiegato, Commesso, Cancelliere, Scrivano, Portiere

Clerk: translate from English into Korean

사무원, 서기, 교회 서기, 목사, 학자, 프런트계, 서기로 근무하다, 사무관으로 근무하다, 점원 노릇을 하다

Clerk: translate from English into Russian

Клерк, Чиновник, Секретарь, Писарь, Делопроизводитель, Продавец, Письмоводитель, Конторский служащий, Грамотный человек, Духовное лицо, Быть чиновником, Образованный человек, Служить чиновником

Clerk: translate from English into Spanish

Empleado, Secretario, Oficinista, Funcionario, Escribiente, Trabajar como dependiente

Word origin

Old English cleric, clerc (in the sense ‘ordained minister, literate person’), from ecclesiastical Latin clericus ‘clergyman’ (see cleric); reinforced by Old French clerc, from the same sourc

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Clerk – similar words

clerked

verb
Work as a clerk.
Usage examples:
Eleven of those who left college this year are clerking in auction stores

noun
A person employed in an office or bank to keep records, accounts, and undertake other routine administrative duties.
Usage examples:
A bank clerk

noun
A receptionist in a hotel.
Usage examples:
She approached the desk and the clerk looked down at her

All meanings and translations of Clerked

Clerk synonims

administrator

noun
A person responsible for carrying out the administration of a business or organization.
Usage examples:
Hospital administrators

noun
Someone whose job is to manage a business or business activity
Usage examples:
A new administrator has taken over at the park, and more stringent business practices are in place.…

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babu

noun
A respectful title or form of address for a man, especially an educated one.
Usage examples:
I could see kana-babu's shop

All meanings and translations of Babu

bookkeeper

noun
A person whose job is to keep records of the financial affairs of a business.
Usage examples:
The business had grown enough to justify hiring a bookkeeper

noun
Someone whose job is to keep a record of all the money a company spends and receives
Usage examples:
We are planning to hire a freelance bookkeeper.

All meanings and translations of Bookkeeper

cashier

noun
A person handling payments and receipts in a shop, bank, or business.
Usage examples:
For much of the last fifty years the country's banks have operated as cashiers for often insolvent …

verb
Dismiss (someone) from the armed forces in disgrace because of a serious misdemeanour.
Usage examples:
He was found guilty and cashiered

noun
A person responsible for receiving payments for goods

All meanings and translations of Cashier

pen-pusher

noun
Someone who has an office job that is not very interesting or important and involves a lot of paperwork
Usage examples:
The ad made the job sound exciting but i'm just a glorified pen pusher.

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scrivener

noun
A clerk, scribe, or notary.
Usage examples:
His father, a scrivener, had rebelled against his father's catholicism to become an anglican (and b…

All meanings and translations of Scrivener

teller

noun
A person employed to deal with customers' transactions in a bank.
Usage examples:
But the only jobs they were hiring women for in the bank were tellers and secretaries.

noun
A person in a bank who receives and pays out money to customers

noun
→ bank teller

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