Usually means: Employee responsible for administrative tasks.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word clerk:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. clerk: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. clerk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clerk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clerk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clerk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clerk, clerk: Wordnik
  7. clerk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Clerk, clerk: Wiktionary
  9. clerk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clerk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clerk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. clerk: Dictionary.com
  13. clerk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clerk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Clerk (Quaker), Clerk (disambiguation), Clerk (law), Clerk (legislature), Clerk (municipal official), Clerk (position), Clerk (surname), Clerk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clerk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clerk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clerk: Rhymezone
  19. clerk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. clerk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Clerk: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. clerk: Free Dictionary
  23. clerk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Clerk, clerk: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. clerk: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. clerk: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. clerk: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. clerk: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clerk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. CLERK, CLERK, CLERK: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clerk: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See clerked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
noun:  A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.
noun:  A law clerk.
noun:  An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.
noun:  The chief legal advisor of a legislature or legislative chamber, who is usually also responsible for keeping minutes of sittings.
noun:  (Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
noun:  (archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
noun:  (dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).
noun:  (obsolete) A scholar.
verb:  To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk.
noun:  A surname.

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