clerk
noun
[ klɑːk ]
• a person employed in an office or bank to keep records, accounts, and undertake other routine administrative duties.
• "a bank clerk"
Similar:
office worker,
clerical worker,
administrator,
administrative officer,
bookkeeper,
record keeper,
account keeper,
cashier,
teller,
babu,
pen-pusher,
scrivener,
• a receptionist in a hotel.
• "she approached the desk and the clerk looked down at her"
• a member of the clergy.
• a literate or scholarly person.
clerk
verb
• work as a clerk.
• "eleven of those who left college this year are clerking in auction stores"
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 source. clerk (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the early 16th century.
