shipping clerk
noun
: one who is employed in a shipping room to assemble, pack, and send out or receive goods
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Looking for work in the 1980s, Mr. Hutchins became a shipping clerk at NBC at his wife’s suggestion.
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Alex Traub, New York Times, 4 May 2025
There are 23 job titles affected, from roles with a single employee such as shipping clerk, plant manager, manufacturing engineer and others, along with titles with multiple employees including 11 packaging operators and 23 blending operators.
—Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2021
His father was a shipping clerk for Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company and his mother worked as a domestic.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
Behind the scenes, she and Holdridge were aided by a staff that included recording engineer Peter Bartók, a son of composer Béla Bartók, and a young Mike Nichols, who served as the company’s shipping clerk before rising to stardom as a comedian and director.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
Behind the scenes, Ms. Mantell and Holdridge were aided by a staff that included recording engineer Peter Bartók, a son of composer Béla Bartók, and a young Mike Nichols, who served as the company’s shipping clerk before rising to stardom as a comedian and director.
—Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
His mother was a shipping clerk.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
The English shipping clerk Edmund Dene Morel was instrumental in exposing the brutal, plantation slave labor in the Congo.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
Does your shipping clerk need a high school diploma?
—Bill Conerly, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
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Alex Traub, New York Times, 4 May 2025
There are 23 job titles affected, from roles with a single employee such as shipping clerk, plant manager, manufacturing engineer and others, along with titles with multiple employees including 11 packaging operators and 23 blending operators.
—Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2021
His father was a shipping clerk for Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company and his mother worked as a domestic.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
Behind the scenes, she and Holdridge were aided by a staff that included recording engineer Peter Bartók, a son of composer Béla Bartók, and a young Mike Nichols, who served as the company’s shipping clerk before rising to stardom as a comedian and director.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
Behind the scenes, Ms. Mantell and Holdridge were aided by a staff that included recording engineer Peter Bartók, a son of composer Béla Bartók, and a young Mike Nichols, who served as the company’s shipping clerk before rising to stardom as a comedian and director.
—Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
His mother was a shipping clerk.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
The English shipping clerk Edmund Dene Morel was instrumental in exposing the brutal, plantation slave labor in the Congo.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
Does your shipping clerk need a high school diploma?
—Bill Conerly, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
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“Shipping clerk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shipping%20clerk. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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