clerk
noun/klɜːrk/
Слово англійською: clerk
Переклад clerk українською: клерк
Детальний опис
- (also sales clerk both North American English, shop assistant, assistant (both British English))a person whose job is to serve customers in a shop
- The clerk at the counter gave me too little change.
- The clerk answered all our questions.
- (also desk clerk)(both North American English) a person whose job is dealing with people arriving at or leaving a hotel synonym receptionist
- The hotel clerk greeted us warmly.
- a person whose job is to keep the records or accounts and do other routine duties in an office, shop, etc.
- an office clerk
- an official in charge of the records of a council, court, etc.
- the Clerk of the Court
Word OriginOld English cleric, clerc (in the sense ‘ordained minister, literate person’), from ecclesiastical Latin clericus ‘clergyman’, from Greek klērikos ‘belonging to the Christian clergy’, from klēros ‘lot, heritage’ (Acts 1:26); reinforced by Old French clerc, from the same source. Sense (1) dates from the early 16th cent.