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Main Entry:	clerk [klurk; Brit. klahrk] Show IPA/klɜrk; Brit. klɑrk/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	assistant
Synonyms:	agent, amanuensis, auditor, bookkeeper, cashier, copyist, counter jumper, counterperson, employee, notary, office helper, operator, paper pusher, paper shuffler, pen pusher, pencil pusher, receptionist, recorder, registrar, salesperson, secretary, seller, shopperson, stenographer, teller, transcriber, white collar, worker
Notes:	clergy first meant 'learning, scholarship' and clerk had the original meaning 'man ordained to the Christian ministry'

Main Entry:	cashier
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	bank worker
Synonyms:	accountant, banker, bursar, clerk, collector, paymaster, purser, receiver, teller, treasurer

Main Entry:	clergyperson
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	minister of church
Synonyms:	abbey, archbishop, bishop, blackcoat, cardinal, cassock, chaplain, churchperson, cleric, clerk, curate, dean, divine, ecclesiast, ecclesiastic, evangelist, father, missionary, monsignor, padre, parson, pastor, person of God, person of the cloth, pontiff, preacher, predicant, priest, primate, pulpitarian, pulpiteer, rabbi, rector, reverend, sermonizer, shepherd, vicar

Example Sentences

They are not everywhere yet, but the new devices handle virtually all of the manual transactions once performed by the clerk.

Paralegals are essentially a fancy combination of a legal secretary and a filing clerk.

She has already gone part-time as an accounts clerk.

They are not everywhere yet, but the new devices handle virtually all of the manual transactions once performed by the clerk.

Paralegals are essentially a fancy combination of a legal secretary and a filing clerk.

She has already gone part-time as an accounts clerk.

When it came time to find a hotel, my friends asked the desk clerk for one room.

Do students need some calculation, of course, but the example of the clerk who can t make change is old and uninformative.

Now he was moving to work as a clerk in his father's leather-goods store.

In other words, get ready for the sales clerk to offer you yet another option along with the useless extended warranty.

The checkout clerk with neon blue hair didn't know the difference.

Waited tables/served as a clerk in a hotel/restaurant to pay for undergraduate education.

I'd rather be a repairman than another mindless office clerk.

At a hotel nearby, the desk clerk said he would hear the engine when it came.

The clerk scanned the sheet but did not hesitate to hand it over.

Imagine entering an empty department store alone, with no clerk in sight to help you find what you want or answer your questions.

Sober up firstAnything more revealing than a sales clerk in an upmarket store would wear.

Because the clerk knows whether there's excess inventory, and if they can sell it, they will.

They pulled out photos of their loved ones to show the clerk and entered extensive conversations right then and there.

The clerk showed him the gun, and he handled the pistol grip admiringly.

Soon, even the clerk at the store knew what frindle meant.

He was pale and did not speak a word," a shop clerk told a television reporter.

Start with people you naturally encounter on your travels– your cabdriver, a shopkeeper, a hotel clerk.

It would work even if there were no clerk present, for instance at a vending machine.

If you choose to try those, discuss how often to give them with the store clerk.

Anderson also pleaded guilty to a lesser companion misdemeanor charge of unauthorized computer access, the clerk said.

Two weeks before your trial, request a continuance from the court clerk.

The law clerk looked across the courtroom and pointed at the judge.

For every traditional bank clerk there are several sorts of financial intermediators.

It would be a federal crime for anyone other than a mail-recovery clerk to do this.

If a clerk enters a patient's name incorrectly during the intake, he could be linked to the wrong case history.

Call or visit your city clerk to find out what the rules are in your state.

Before that he had worked as a clerk for a builder's firm and an electrical company.

Hereabouts, snapping at a slow checkout clerk might suffice.

Written by someone who worked as a file clerk and sometime music critic and illustrated by denizens of top-notch artists.

One reviewer once complained that the desk clerk wouldn't give her a free aspirin at a luxury hotel.

His son had wandered over to the videogame store, where he had been spotted by an alert clerk.

The poor man couldn't hold down a job as a store clerk if he wanted.

As a result, his first job was not as a professor, but as a clerk in the patent office.

So, you'll have to call the clerk and make sure you've got them all.

Main Entry:	employee
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	person being paid for working for another or a corporation
Synonyms:	agent, apprentice, assistant, attendant, blue collar, breadwinner, clerk, cog, company person, craftsperson, desk jockey, domestic, hand, help, hired gun, hired hand, hireling, jobholder, laborer, member, operator, pink collar, plug*, representative, sales help, salesperson, servant, slave, staff member, wage-earner, white collar, worker, working stiff

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	minister
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	person in charge of church
Synonyms:	abbot, archbishop, archdeacon, bishop, chaplain, clergy, clergyperson, cleric, clerical, clerk, confessor, curate, deacon, dean, diocesan, divine, ecclesiastic, lecturer, missionary, monk, parson, pastor, preacher, prelate, priest, pulpiteer, rector, reverend, shepherd, vicar
Notes:	a minister is commonly a person who leads the congregation of a Protestant church; pastor is another word for priest or minister and reverend is a generic prefix for a Christian leader

Main Entry:	salesperson
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	salesman/woman
Synonyms:	businessperson, clerk, dealer, peddler, rep, sales assistant, sales rep, sales representative, salesclerk, salesgirl, saleslady, seller, store clerk, traveling salesperson, vendor

Main Entry:	secretary
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	office worker
Synonyms:	assistant, clerk, executive secretary, receptionist, typist, word processor

Main Entry:	bookkeeper
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	accountant
Synonyms:	CPA, auditor, bean counter, clerk

Main Entry:	clergyman
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	minister
Synonyms:	abbey, archbishop, bible thumper, bishop, blackcoat, cardinal, cassock, chaplain, churchman, cleric, clerk, curate, dean, devil dodger, divine, ecclesiast, ecclesiastic, evangelist, father, harp polisher, missionary, monsignor, padre, parson, pastor, pontiff, preacher, predicant, priest, primate, pulpitarian, pulpiteer, rabbi, rector, reverend, sermonizer, shepherd, sky pilot, sky scout, the rev, turn-around collar, vicar
Antonyms:	layman, layperson

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