clerk
/klɜrk/
noun
- A person who works in an office, store, or bank, typically handling records, accounts, or customer service.
- She works as a sales clerk at the department store on weekends.
- The clerk at the front desk helped me check in to the hotel.
- The bank clerk counted the cash carefully before handing it over.
- An official in charge of the records of a court, council, or other organization.
- Please ask the clerk of the committee for a copy of the minutes.
- The town clerk keeps all the birth and marriage records.
- The court clerk filed the documents for the trial.
verb
- To work as a clerk, especially in an office or store.
- During college, she clerked for a law firm to gain experience.
- They hired him to clerk in the accounting department.
- He clerks at a small bookstore downtown.