clerk
Collocations
7(noun.)
ADJ
chief, senior | assistant, junior
articled
The young articled clerk spent her first year learning the basics of legal practice.
bank, council, office, parish, railway, solicitor's | accounts, booking, filing
PREP
~ to
The new employee started work as clerk to the managing director last Monday.
PHRASES
the office/post of clerk
Definitions
noun
One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
As office boy I made such a mark That they gave me the post of a junior clerk.
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
verb
To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk.
The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
He turned to a more attentive audience, and found it in the young fellow they called The Iceman, because he clerked in the swell jewelry store around the corner, and was always there with the finger advertisement for his boss’s diamondware.
To assemble information about a patient during their initial assessment by actions such as a taking a detailed medical history and performing a physical examination.
The best preparation for the long case is to clerk patients on the wards and in outpatients within a strict 60 minutes. This would include deciding on a policy of management.
You should present a case you have clerked to a doctor (registrar or consultant) and discuss your choice of investigations and management.
name
A surname.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a salesperson in a store
- salesclerk
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6As office boy I made such a mark That they gave me the post of a junior clerk.
WiktionaryThus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however
Wiktionaryclerks; a brand of humanity which, as the literature from Dickens to Gogol makes only too clear, was hardly to be envied except perhaps for the privilege of public service, the security which allowed
WiktionaryThe law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
WiktionaryHe turned to a more attentive audience, and found it in the young fellow they called The Iceman, because he clerked in the swell jewelry store around the corner, and was always there with the finger a
Wiktionary[…] for three years he had worked in the stinking labyrinth of the Mandalay bazaars, clerking for the rice merchants and sometimes stealing.
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