adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clerical/administrative error
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The applications forms were sent to the wrong addresses due to a clerical error.
secretarial/clerical/office work
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I have a background in secretarial work.
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She had done clerical work before she married.
the religious/clerical establishment
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His teachings were unacceptable to the religious establishment of the time.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assistant
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This was considered to be due to the limited involvement of the officers and the clerical assistant in certain parts of the analysis.
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Apart from Summerchild and a clerical assistant , the Unit at the last count still consisted of one single member, Serafin herself.
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Adoption of this system has not only avoided the need to employ at least two clerical assistants .
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Serafin was proposing to involve the clerical assistant in the discussion?
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General administration and clerical work - officers and clerical assistant .
collar
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Opening the door a crack she saw a man in a clerical collar and a woman beside him.
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He certainly could not do it in a jacket, trousers, and shirt with a clerical collar .
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So the majority wore clerical collars and the ones who did not knew what they were doing.
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I noticed that he wore one of his own clerical collars round his neck.
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Otherwise, a dark suit, clerical collar , dark hat, raincoat, and they can give me a Military Cross.
error
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We apologise sincerely for this clerical error , and regret the confusion and inconvenience it has caused.
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Election officials maintain clerical errors accounted for most of those improper votes.
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Moreover what seems to have been a clerical error made even that original level low.
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The 15-page application was sent back to them because of a few clerical errors , which they corrected.
job
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Discrimination was highest for male, junior clerical jobs , management trainees and accountants, and lowest for female clerical jobs.
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And of course in many clerical jobs courage or openness is irrelevant.
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Discrimination was highest for male, junior clerical jobs , management trainees and accountants, and lowest for female clerical jobs.
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Many girls worked in minor clerical jobs and were encouraged to learn shorthand and typing skills at evening classes.
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He thinks that I could do better than just a clerical job .
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He held a series of undemanding clerical jobs .
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This week Salomon announced it was moving 750 clerical jobs to lower-cost Florida.
officer
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He now worked for the Water Board as a clerical officer .
staff
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In the former case, by employing civilian clerical staff a greater proportion of funds can be allocated for direct policing policies.
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Nine council members serve part time in Huntington Beach, sharing a clerical staff of three.
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One in 10 laboratories had to call on clerical staff to carry out important testing.
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Computers are belatedly replacing thousands of clerical staff and middle managers.
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Although manual and clerical staff may be replaced relatively easily, staff with special skills are hard to find.
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He had passed the examination to join the clerical staff of the Great Western Railway.
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The redundancies include 80 senior managers, 150 branch managers, 120 computer staff and 90 clerical staff, it claimed.
work
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From this evidence Marshall etal. also conclude that clerical work has not been proletarianized.
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The clerical work is handled by a national agency who services all the other groups in the company.
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The remaining 30% leave clerical work before they are 30.
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In other roles -- doing clerical work , handling phones -- her garb is less formal.
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Nor has he taken the trouble to go into details concerning the clerical work to be done.
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He shows a flair for clerical work , though.
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According to this study, clerical work is merely an occupational category through which men pass.
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In addition to the above, annuals are normally covered by standing orders, which eliminate repetitive clerical work .
worker
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They support the views of Goldthorpe and Lockwood that clerical workers are in an intermediate class between the working and service classes.
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Custodians, clerical workers , food handlers, professors.
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Interestingly, however, clerical workers show least sociability in this respect.
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To help carry out the community approach, detectives, officers, meter monitors, and clerical workers began meeting in teams.
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The rejection of the proletarianization theory for clerical workers by Marshall etal. must, however, be regarded with some caution.
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In their own sample, a large majority of clerical workers , 70%, were female.
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Furthermore, they found that female clerical workers were much less likely to achieve promotion than their male counterparts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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clerical staff
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The work you'll do is mainly clerical .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Belliustin called upon the tsar to circumvent the ecclesiastical hierarchy and breathe life into the clerical estate.
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Discrimination was highest for male, junior clerical jobs, management trainees and accountants, and lowest for female clerical jobs.
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Essential to his effort was the restoration of a vigorous and self-conscious clerical caste.
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Nine council members serve part time in Huntington Beach, sharing a clerical staff of three.
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Nothing would ever be said, but the activity would be seen as part of a clerical decline.
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Otherwise the key areas of debt counselling and clerical support can not continue adequately.
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The clergy, however, preferred to discuss these matters in provincial clerical synods where they governed the procedures and priorities.
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Then down to the clerical job in City Hall for more learning.