Definition of clerk
1 : cleric
2 archaic : scholar
3a : an official responsible (as to a government agency) for correspondence, records, and accounts and vested with specified powers or authority (as to issue writs as ordered by a court) city clerk a law clerkb : one employed to keep records or accounts or to perform general office work a bank clerkc : one who works at a sales or service counter a store clerk a grocery clerk
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Examples of clerk in a Sentence
Have the court clerk file your request with the judge.
He works as a clerk in a local pet store.
a sales clerk at a women's clothing store
Recent Examples of clerk from the Web
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Authorities have arrested a woman who allegedly played a role in a Lowndes County gas station shooting that critically injured a store clerk, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said.
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Almost all adopt the mien of an infantry grunt, though in truth, most D.I.s, like most Marines, aren’t combat troops but rather part of the corps’s expanding cast of supporting players: mechanics, air traffic controllers, technicians, clerks.
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Willard Helander, who served as the Lake County clerk for 20 years, is the regent of the Lake Forest chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution.
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A clerk at the shop, workers and residents of the nearby Normandy Isle hotel and many others in the neighborhood reported seeing Cunanan before the slaying of Versace.
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Prosecutors of the case said April Price Romero, 31, stole $8,752 from the small town of Wilton between Jan. 1, 2016, and May 17, 2016 during her time as town clerk.
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A deputy clerk in Jefferson District Court is accused of pocketing traffic court payments and falsifying records to cover her tracks.
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Then, lowering his voice, the clerk confided that the bureau had run a name check on one of the burglars, James McCord.
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A new election commission executive director has been appointed as the DuPage County Board continues to work on an effort to do away with the office by merging into the county clerk's office.
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Origin and Etymology of clerk
Middle English, from Anglo-French clerk & Old English cleric, clerc, both from Late Latin clericus, from Late Greek klērikos, from Greek klēros lot, inheritance (in allusion to Deuteronomy 18:2), stick of wood; akin to Greek klan to break — more at clast
clerk
Definition of clerk
intransitive verb
: to act or work as a clerk clerked for a court judge
Recent Examples of clerk from the Web
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Bibas is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1985, Comey clerked for Judge John Walker, Jr., George H. W. Bush’s cousin, in the Southern District of New York.
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But additionally, the trolley work serves as an unglamorous rite of passage, guarding the gilded summit of clerking from interlopers.
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Prior to clerking with Souter from 2001-2001, Newsom was a clerk to Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
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Before joining the Notre Dame faculty, Barrett clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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The five federal appellate nominees in the batch include state supreme court justices, former law clerks to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, corporate lawyers and law professors.
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Stras formerly clerked for conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and is known to share the view of a limited role for the judiciary.
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Three of the five are former law clerks for either Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia or Justice Clarence Thomas, who for a quarter century were the two most conservative justices.
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Origin and Etymology of clerk
see 1clerk
CLERK Defined for English Language Learners
clerk
playDefinition of clerk for English Language Learners
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: a person whose job is to keep track of records and documents for a business or office
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: an elected or appointed official whose job is to take care of official papers and business for a court or government
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: a person who works in a store
clerk
Definition of clerk for English Language Learners
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: to work as a clerk
CLERK Defined for Kids
Definition of clerk for Students
1 : a person whose job is to keep records or accounts
2 : a salesperson in a store
Medical Dictionary
Law Dictionary
clerk
Legal Definition of clerk
1 : an official responsible (as to a court) for correspondence, records, and accounts and having specified powers or authority (as to issue writs) a city clerk clerk of court
2a : a person employed to keep records or accounts or to perform general office work b : a person (as a law student or graduate) employed by an attorney or judge to assist with case-related tasks (as research) — compare paralegal
clerkship
nounclerk
Legal Definition of clerk
: to act or work as a clerk clerked for a Supreme Court justice
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