1
: cleric
2
archaic
: scholar
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
clerked; clerking; clerks
: to act or work as a clerk
clerked for a court judge
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Examples of clerk in a Sentence
Noun
Have the court clerk file your request with the judge.
He works as a clerk in a local pet store.
a sales clerk at a women's clothing store
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Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
But the rollout, which consisted of transferring massive voter datasets from antiquated county systems, was difficult for understaffed and overtaxed county clerk offices.
—ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2024
Erin Alberty, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
By contrast, according to a recent paper by legal scholars Stephen Choi and Mitu Gulati, roughly 10 percent of President Joe Biden’s appellate judges clerked for a justice, and about half of Biden’s appellate judges themselves clerked for a federal appellate judge.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
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Noun
In late October, county clerks had already received 226,646 ballots across the four counties.
—Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
But the rollout, which consisted of transferring massive voter datasets from antiquated county systems, was difficult for understaffed and overtaxed county clerk offices.
—ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
The big picture: Lee, an attorney who previously clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, won multiple applause breaks for claims that fintech regulation is a pretext for invasive governance.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
By contrast, according to a recent paper by legal scholars Stephen Choi and Mitu Gulati, roughly 10 percent of President Joe Biden’s appellate judges clerked for a justice, and about half of Biden’s appellate judges themselves clerked for a federal appellate judge.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Clerk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clerk. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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clerk
1 of 2 noun1
: a person whose job is to keep records and accounts
town clerk
a stock clerk
2
: a salesperson in a store
clerk
2 of 2 verb
: to act or work as a clerk
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