clerk
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English clerc, from Old English clerc, from Late Latin clēricus (“a priest, clergyman, cleric, also generally a learned man, clerk”), from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikos, “(adj. in church jargon) of the clergy”), from κλῆρος (klēros, “lot, inheritance, originally "a shard used in casting lots".”)
[edit] Pronunciation
- (Australia) IPA: /klaːk/
- Homophone: Clark
- (UK) IPA: /klɑːk/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)k
- Homophone: Clark
- (US) enPR: klerk, IPA: /klɝk/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(r)k
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia clerk (plural clerks)
- One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
- A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs
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[edit] Translations
one working with records etc.
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[edit] Verb
clerk (third-person singular simple present clerks, present participle clerking, simple past and past participle clerked)
- To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
- The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
[edit] External links
- clerk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- clerk in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
