work as a clerk, as in the legal business

an employee who performs clerical work ( e. g., keeps records or accounts)

a salesperson in a store

A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.

A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.

One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.

An assistant in a shop or store.

One engaged in an office to conduct correspondence, etc.; a salesman in a store or shop.

To act as clerk or salesman.

( orig.) A clergyman or priest: a scholar: one who reads the responses in the English Church service: in common use, one employed as a writer or assistant in an office.

CLERKSHIP.

One who responds to the priest in the English church; a writer or accountant.

One who keeps records or accounts; a secretary; a salesman.

Ang. Ch. One who leads in the responses.

A clergyman or ecclesiastic; a scholar; a layman who reads the responses in the church service, to direct the congregation; one employed in an office to assist in writing, keeping accounts, & c., one who keeps account, & c., of the proceedings of a public or associated body; an assistant shopman. See Clergy.

One engaged to write in an office or keep business books; a clergyman; a reader of responses in the church- service.

I'd sooner have to dance with a bank clerk in New York, than with a bank clerk here." – The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

The post- office clerk laughed and said that wasn't a lost car. – Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun by Mabel C. Hawley

My father was a clerk in Mr. Carlyle's office- of course I mean the late Mr. Carlyle. – East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood

" It was the first time I had ever seen him, sir," said the clerk – Swirling Waters by Max Rittenberg

And then had told the clerk that I would pay. – Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph C. Lincoln

" You bet there is," the clerk agreed. – New Faces by Myra Kelly

" Why, you- you are going back to the bank again as clerk – Mattie:--A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson

Daubrecq rose hurriedly from his seat and followed the clerk to the box- office. – The Crystal Stopper by Maurice LeBlanc

The clerk made it out and handed it over in silence. – The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

What luck that clerk has! – Honor: A Play in Four Acts by Hermann Sudermann

She then knew nothing of my being but a clerk in her uncle's office, and I was resolved that she never should know. – Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton

As he turned away the clerk permitted himself that faint trace of a smile once more. – Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by George Randolph Chester

The clerk from Messrs. – When Love Calls by Stanley J. Weyman

The clerk went out, knowing why he had been sent. – The Lure of the North by Harold Bindloss

He had stopped at a well- known hotel where he knew the night clerk – Guy Garrick by Arthur B. Reeve

Eustace had nothing of the solicitor's clerk about him. – Mr. Meeson's Will by H. Rider Haggard

Ask the clerk about it. – Gold Seekers of '49 by Edwin L. Sabin

The clerk called to him. – The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Where do you suppose the clerk can be? – The Dorrance Domain by Carolyn Wells