1. A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing. 2a. A person who keeps the records and performs the regular business of a court, legislative body, or municipal district. b.Law A law clerk, as for a judge. 3. A person who works at a sales counter or service desk, as at a store or hotel. 4. A cleric. 5.Archaic A scholar.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: clerked, clerk·ing, clerks To work or serve as a clerk: clerked in a store; clerks for a judge.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, clergyman, secretary, from Old English clerc and Old French clerc, clergyman, both from Late Latin clricus, from Greek klrikos, belonging to the clergy, from klros, inheritance, lot.
klûrk; British klärk
ricus, from Greek kl
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