clerk Synonyms

clerk Meaning

Wordnet

clerk (n)

an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)

a salesperson in a store

Wordnet

clerk (v)

work as a clerk, as in the legal business

Webster

clerk (n.)

A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.

A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.

One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.

An assistant in a shop or store.

FAQs About the word clerk

an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts), a salesperson in a store, work as a clerk, as in the legal businessA clergyman or eccl

registrar, secretary, recorder, bookkeeper, archivist,register, reporter, transcriptionist, chronicler, historian

layman, layperson, secular,layman, secular, layperson,,lay reader, lector, lay reader

The patient waited impatiently for the overworked clerk at the reception desk to finish with the previous customer.

The grocery store clerk scanned my items with practiced efficiency, bagging them neatly as she went.

The aspiring writer dreamed of ditching her clerk job at the bookstore and finally pursuing her passion full-time.

Due to a system update, the clerks in the shipping department were temporarily unable to process new orders.