Clerk Noun Bre Klɑːk Klɜːrk Office Town Court

• an office clerk
• the town clerk
• the clerk of the court
• the clerk at the counter gave me too little change.

clerk

1. a person whose job is to keep the records or accounts in an office, shop/store etc.
• see also filing clerk
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/filing-clerk
• an office clerk
2. an official in charge of the records of a council, court, etc.
• see also clerk of works
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/clerk-of-works
• the Town Clerk
• the Clerk of the Court
• = sales clerk
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/sales-clerk
• The clerk at the counter gave me too little change.
3. a person whose job is dealing with people arriving at or leaving a hotel
• synonym receptionist
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/receptionist

Extra Examples

• He held the post of Clerk to the Council.
• He started work as a railway booking clerk.
• a former clerk to Chief Justice George P. Willison
• an articled clerk working for a large law firm
• The sales clerk answered all our questions.

Word Origin

• Old English cleric, clerc (in the sense ‘ordained minister, literate person’), from ecclesiastical Latin clericus ‘clergyman’, from Greek klērikos ‘belonging to the Christian clergy’, from klēros ‘lot, heritage’ (Acts 1:26); reinforced by Old French clerc, from the same source. Sense (1) dates from the early 16th cent.