Synonyms of clerks

clerks

noun

plural of clerk

1

as in registrars

an official whose job is to keep records

you'll need to get a copy of your birth certificate from the office of the town clerk

Synonyms & Similar Words

• registrars
• secretaries
• registers
• reporters
• archivists
• recorders
• scribes
• bookkeepers
• historians
• chroniclers
• transcriptionists
• documenters
• annalists

2

as in salesmen

a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store

the clerk suggested a different brand

Synonyms & Similar Words

• salesmen
• salespeople
• salesclerks
• salespeople
• shopgirls
• salesgirls
• saleswomen
• salesladies
• floorwalkers
• pitchmen
• pitchwomen

3

as in priests

a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church

the clerks in the rural parishes were for the most part sons of merchants

Synonyms & Similar Words

• priests
• preachers
• clericals
• clergymen
• clerics
• ministers
• deacons
• bishops
• pastors
• reverends
• ecclesiastics
• divines
• fathers
• chaplains
• prelates
• clergypersons
• missionaries
• monks
• popes
• archbishops
• priestesses
• churchmen
• dominies
• deans
• abbots
• rectors
• vicars
• deaconesses
• padres
• curés
• presbyters
• parsons
• friars
• shepherds
• confessors
• clergywomen
• evangelists
• missioners
• curates
• mendicants
• diocesans
• Holy Joes
• archpriests
• abbés
• religious
• monsignors
• revivalists
• sky pilots
• oblates
• monastics
• missionizers
• high priests
• high priestesses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• laymen
• laypeople
• lay readers
• seculars
• lectors

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of clerks

The lawsuit asks a judge to order the Wisconsin Elections Commission not to distribute its guidance to the roughly 2,000 clerks who run elections at the local level that says voters can't request a new ballot. — ABC News, 23 July 2026

The new law eliminated the Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court’s position by consolidating the Orleans Parish civil and criminal court clerks into one position. — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 22 July 2026

The most devoted patrons had lucky chairs, lucky mutuel clerks, and lucky televisions. — Rebecca Egan McCarthy, New Yorker, 21 July 2026

Two clerks working at the office Thursday declined to speak on the record. — Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026

But the clerks all said the disturbance occurred about three hours earlier, not before the noon deadline of the qualifying period. — Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 July 2026

Victims might interact with a police department, sheriff or 911 operator; a state’s attorney; clerks and judges at the county courts. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026

The state’s system is administered locally by municipal clerks who know their communities and are accountable under state law. — Reid Ribble, Time, 8 July 2026

Republicans have said the change was not personal and supporters have noted that the offices of criminal and civil clerks of courts are combined in other parishes. — Safiyah Riddle, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026