Definition of clerk
1
: cleric
3 a
: 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
b
: one employed to keep records or accounts or to perform general office work
- a bank clerk
c
: one who works at a sales or service counter
- a store clerk
- a grocery clerk
d
: a person (such as a law school graduate) who provides a judge, magistrate, or lawyer with assistance in such matters as research, writing, and analysis : law clerk
