Definition of Clerk

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Definition of Clerk

Clerk

A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.

A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.

One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.

An assistant in a shop or store.

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Clerk Quotations

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
Bertolt Brecht

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
William Christopher Handy

People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.
Christopher Meloni

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.
Robert Mueller

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
Martin Lewis Perl

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
C. S. Forester

A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk.
Harry F. Banks

You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.
Joycelyn Elders

Clerk Translations

clerk in Afrikaans is kantoorklerk
clerk in Danish is kontorist
clerk in Dutch is kantoorbediende, bediende
clerk in Italian is funzionario
clerk in Norwegian is kontorist
clerk in Portuguese is caixeiro
clerk in Spanish is oficinista

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