filing clerk
clerk
verb[ I ]
uk /klɑːk/us
WORKPLACE, HR
to work as a clerk:
Debbie has a summer job clerking in an office.

Examples of clerk

clerk
The stationmasters thus retained manual control over this pool of reservations whilst supporting automation of the larger set of reservations previously controlled by railway clerks.
In cases where clerks were employed, there is no way to be sure how precise they were in recording forms verbatim.
Pomerantz shows, for instance, how the design of the clerk's initial inquiry has consequences for the rest of the call.
The ' educated class ', mainly government clerks, he wrote, were ' social snobs ', unwilling to mix with manual workers.
Parish registrars and hospital clerks, for example, selected those facts considered essential for their assigned tasks.
Instead, these positions fell to police officers and civilian clerks.
Four general principles would be followed by the census clerks with regard to disputable cases.
To what extent literacy in love really prepared clerks for their subsequent experiences of marriage and fatherhood, they apparently did not record.
A simple bedside assessment should be used and the findings recorded within the clerking pro forma for stroke patients.
Less than 2.5 per cent of all inventories were for professional people (attorneys, apothecaries, barbers, schoolteachers, surgeons and clerks).
Still, a survey of the laws regulating sheriffs, marshals, clerks, custom collectors, surveyors, and so forth, is striking for its continuity with the past.
Data were entered and verified independently by data entry clerks at the completion of the study.
Shopkeepers and small tradesmen made up around 30 per cent of the local workforce, while clerks represented around 15 per cent.
In fact, they were increasingly run by their clerks, often lawyers, while their governors and assistants participated less in day-to-day management.
By 1931 10 per cent of young women workers were shop assistants, and 12.5 per cent were clerks.
See all examples of clerk
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withclerk

clerk

These are words often used in combination with clerk.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

chief clerk
Letters to my constituent are signed by a divisional officer, so-called, but any reply must be addressed to a chiefclerk.
From the
Hansard archive