Word Finder - clerk

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One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

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A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.

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In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).

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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).

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A scholar.

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To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk

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The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.

A store clerk rushed to help her.

A clerk in the shoe department saw a guy and his wife carrying a child.

When the ad was pulled from the paper, the seller told the clerk he had just had a cash sale for his asking price.

Aside from Larkin, there was only an elderly clerk who neither looked up nor spoke.

The two detectives entered the office, and the clerk, a bored and balding retiree, looked up from a crossword puzzle and, recogniz­ing Hunter, frowned.

He considered warning the Indian night clerk that they had a real winner wandering out on the sand in the middle of the night but discarded the idea.

One of his great-grandfathers was town clerk and at the same time secretary to Queen Anne of Neuberg, widow of Charles II.

In the experiment imagined by Lord Rayleigh a porous diaphragm takes the place of the partition and trap-doors imagined by Clerk Maxwell, and the molecules sort themselves automatically on account of the difference in their average velocities for the two gases.

We were nearly across the empty floor before a clerk spotted us.

The clerk didn't raise her eyes from her desk.

For some years he was employed as a clerk; thereafter he joined a relative who was inspector of manufactures at Amiens, and he himself speedily rose to the position of inspector.

The 123rd Novell (c. 21) provides that if a clerk be accused of a secular crime he shall be accused before his bishop, who may depose him from his office and order, and then the competent judge may take him and deal with him according to the laws.

The clerk glanced round, evidently hoping that his joke would be appreciated.

The clerk darted around the counter towards the corner, where someone had accidently tipped over a lit candelabra that was now burning the curtains.

When Byrne failed to answer a wake-up call the following morning, a clerk finally opened his room.

Thank good­ness for Colorado hospitality—the friendly room clerk was more than willing to oblige a law enforcement agent.

Other officers are the clerk of the county court, elected for six years, the sheriff, who also acts as tax-collector and treasurer, the prosecuting attorney, one or two assessors, the surveyor of lands and the superintendent of free schools, all elected for the term of four years; the sheriff may not serve two consecutive full terms. In addition there are boards appointed or elected by various authorities and charged with specific duties.

The clerk who had rescued Petya was talking to a functionary about the priests who were officiating that day with the bishop.

A clerk at World Wide thought he was taking some time off before settling in out there.

The more important township officials are a moderator, a board of selectmen, a clerk, a treasurer and a superintendent of schools.

He then snatched the obnoxious bill from the clerk, put it under his cloak, and commanding the doors to be locked went back to Whitehall.

Tetzel was selected as the most efficient salesman; he was appointed general sub-commissioner for indulgences, and was accompanied by a clerk of the Fuggers from whom Albrecht had borrowed the money to pay his first-fruits.

The less deprived of participation in the sacraments, and made a clerk incapable of taking a benefice.

Petya too would have run there, but the clerk who had taken the young gentleman under his protection stopped him.

His satellites--the senior clerk, a countinghouse clerk, a scullery maid, a cook, two old women, a little pageboy, the coachman, and various domestic serfs--were seeing him off.

In that reunion of great sovereigns we should have discussed our interests like one family, and have rendered account to the peoples as clerk to master.

The clerk was holding an extinguisher, shaking and cursing it.

Dean was down to 11 dollars and change, so he used his Visa card, holding his breath that it wasn't maxed-out while the clerk ran it through the recording machine.

The canon provides that any clerk having a complaint against another clerk must not pass by his own bishop and turn to secular tribunals, but first lay b a re his cause before him, so that by the sentence of the bishop himself the dispute may be settled by arbitrators acceptable to both parties.

If any clerk have a complaint against his own bishop, he shall have his cause adjudicated upon by the synod of the province.

In the 13th century it was recognized that a " clerk " for felony was subject only to ecclesiastical trial and punishment; punishment which might involve lifelong imprisonment.

I know the clerk down at Starbuck's more than I know my own mother.

I understand opportunities were limited a century ago but surely she could have been a school teacher or office clerk or something above a brothel prostitute.

An insurance clerk wouldn't know where to start.

The judges were, of course, wholly illiterate, and this tended to throw the ultimate power into the hands of the clerk (pisar) of the court, who was rarely above corruption.

He had but one acquaintance in the place, the clerk of the federal court, who permitted him to occupy a desk in his office and place at the door his sign as a lawyer.

After serving as city clerk, city councillor, and city solicitor successively, he was elected in 1907 a member of the General Court, or House of Representatives, of Mass.

Among his articles may be mentioned those which he wrote for the ninth edition of this Encyclopaedia on Light, Mechanics, Quaternions, Radiation and Thermodynamics, besides the biographical notices of Hamilton and Clerk Maxwell.

In 1822, however, when he had just completed his seventeenth year, this intention was abandoned, and he entered as a clerk in the examiner's office of the India House, "with the understanding that he should be employed from the beginning in preparing drafts of despatches, and be thus trained up as a successor to those who then filled the highest departments of the office."

From the first he was more than a clerk, and after a short apprenticeship he was promoted, in 1828, to the responsible position of assistantexaminer with a salary of 600 a year.

He was cofferer to the king, treasurer of the wardrobe and afterwards clerk of the privy seal.

He was a thoroughly conscientious clerk, devoted to his duty and unsparing of trouble.

In reply to this the French sovereign despatched Andrew as his ambassador to the great Khan Kuyuk; with Longjumeau went his brother (a monk) and several others - John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert "le sommelier," Gerbert of Sens, Robert a clerk, a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.

So she called her clerk, who was a scholar, and bade him write the song, word for word, as it came from Caedmon's lips.

When he came to himself, a man of clerical appearance with a tuft of gray hair at the back of his head and wearing a shabby blue cassock--probably a church clerk and chanter--was holding him under the arm with one hand while warding off the pressure of the crowd with the other.

The crowd spread out again more evenly, and the clerk led Petya--pale and breathless--to the Tsar-cannon.

Women have the right to vote in all elections relating to schools and school officers in cities, towns and graded school districts, and also the right to be elected to any local school position or to the office of township clerk.

A clerk in like case might be suspended from office.

He was responsible for the Universities of Scotland Act of 1858, and in the same year he was elevated to the bench as lord justice clerk.

The other officials are the sheriff, treasurer and coroner, elected for two years; the auditor, recorder, clerk of courts, prosecuting attorney, surveyor and infirmary directors, elected for two years; and the board of school examiners (three) and the board of county visitors (six, of whom three are women), appointed usually by the probate judge for three years.