shipping clerk

noun

|Updated on: 25 May 2018

Definition of shipping clerk

: one who is employed in a shipping room to assemble, pack, and send out or receive goods

Recent Examples of shipping clerk from the Web

Her father worked as a shipping clerk at the nearby University of California, and her mother was a secretary at a law firm.

— harrison smith, Washington Post, "Davida Coady, physician who treated refugees and helped eradicate smallpox in India, dies at 80," 13 May 2018
Her father, David, a former coal miner in Scotland, worked as a shipping clerk and forklift operator for the University of California, Berkeley.

— richard sandomir, New York Times, "Dr. Davida Coady, Medical Missionary, Is Dead at 80," 11 May 2018
Carl worked for many years as a shipping clerk before retiring from New Britain Machine in 1990.

— courant.com, "Carl H. Kozlowski," 4 Mar. 2018
Gloria had worked as a shipping clerk at the former Stafford Printers for several years.

— hartford courant, courant.com, "Gloria T. Panciera," 24 Feb. 2018
The groom’s mother, who is retired, was a nurse at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, Ill. His father, who is retired, was a shipping clerk for Allied Tube and Conduit, a pipe supplier in Harvey, Ill.

— stephanie stiff, New York Times, "Stephanie Stiff, Chad Ellimoottil," 1 Oct. 2017

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