Results for clerk

Definitions of clerk:

part of speech: noun

( orig.) A clergyman or priest: a scholar: one who reads the responses in the English Church service: in common use, one employed as a writer or assistant in an office.

part of speech: noun

One engaged to write in an office or keep business books; a clergyman; a reader of responses in the church- service.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To act as clerk or salesman.

part of speech: noun

CLERKSHIP.

Usage examples for clerk:

• With so little money no one would marry her except some clerk or ship's captain, and then it would have been better for her to be brought up as a servant and not a lady. "Timar's Two Worlds", Mór Jókai

• " Nothing," replied the clerk "The Cry at Midnight", Mildred A. Wirt

• When the clerk left the screen to place the order, Jadiver hastily selected what he wanted. "Tangle Hold", F. L. Wallace