I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bank clerk (= a junior worker in a bank )
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He began his career as a bank clerk.
clerk of works
desk clerk
parish clerk
town clerk
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
articled
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Firms began to poach partners and to recruit dozens of assistant solicitors and articled clerks .
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They then knock at solicitors' doors, presenting their credentials and asking if there is a vacancy for an articled clerk .
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The defendants' articled clerk handled the wife's affairs and negotiated a financial settlement with the husband's solicitors.
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Opposite to David's desk stood a smaller one occupied by the articled clerk .
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Then Hubert was going to be an articled clerk , straight after school.
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He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor.
chief
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These people might include the chief clerks and foremen who control the dally ordering, production and distribution processes.
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The chief executive or clerk of the authority will tell the councillor when they apply to him.
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That evening he sat by his fireside with his chief clerk , Mr Guest, beside him.
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If he requires information he should approach the chief executive or clerk of the council for it.
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He should not seek information from other local authorities except through the chief executive or clerk of his own council.
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There is no necessity to appoint a legally qualified chief executive or clerk .
junior
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Payments are probably dealt with by some junior clerk who applies his or her own interpretation of what the company wants.
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He was junior clerk under Peter Marro.
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Before the Treasury was rehoused at the end of Whitehall its junior clerks were scratching here at their ledgers.
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Fred obtained a position as a junior shipping clerk over many other applicants by being smarter than they were.
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The junior clerk in the Profitboss's team is a prospect.
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Each of these six departments had two or three clerks or junior clerks to assist them in the work.
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It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph, as a junior clerk .
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He first appears in the records as a junior clerk or singing-man in Henry VI's chapel royal, in 1441.
royal
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He became a royal clerk , probably by July 1359, certainly by 1361.
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The acquisition of Templar estates and of alien priories likewise enlarged the openings for royal clerks .
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Many farms were let out to royal clerks and lay servants - another aspect of crown patronage.
senior
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Beyond this opened a small glass-sided cubicle from which a senior clerk could watch for frivolity among the underlings.
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A senior clerk should clear the machines and then reset them to zero at various times during the day.
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He is a senior bank clerk and lives in London.
young
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There was a young clerk on duty on his own.
■ NOUN
bank
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He was forced to leave school at 16 and go to work as a bank clerk .
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He was the son of Samuel Odle, bank clerk .
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Teller robbed bank for love A BANK clerk robbed the till of £850,000 to keep her married boyfriend in luxury.
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My father was a bank clerk , the son of a dispensing chemist.
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Why was the bank clerk sitting up a tree?
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Eventually, I got a job as bank clerk in London when the banks went on a recruiting drive in Ireland.
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He is a senior bank clerk and lives in London.
city
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The top spot goes to the candidate whose petitions are fled first with the city clerk .
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The confidential world of the city clerk persists in Eliot's poorest play which looks again to Victorian melodrama.
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They manned the desk of the city clerk and peopled a phantom orchestra.
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There's also a letter from the Lemon Grove city clerk , peppered with profanity, that she never wrote.
county
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Others hold office as county clerk , assessor, or recorder of deeds and a few are congressmen and state legislators.
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The county clerk has traditionally performed civil marriages.
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This time it was the county clerk , with less than a year left of his four-year term.
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The inmate simply fills out a proxy form and mails it to the county clerk .
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This time they prevailed, and Daley agreed to be slated for county clerk .
court
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There was a packed public gallery as the charges were formally read out by the court clerk .
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Once an item is introduced in a trial, court clerks assume custody of it, locking it in a courthouse cabinet.
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One alternate juror choked with grief and accepted the water and tissues from a concerned court clerk .
desk
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The desk clerk was a worried, grey-haired man with steel-rimmed glasses and a medal.
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Al Perry, Hotel Congress desk clerk .
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There was no desk clerk in the notebook.
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On the third night, she went up ahead while he uncorked a bottle and shared it with the desk clerk .
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The same desk clerk was on duty when Kragan left the hotel two hours later, at nine in the evening.
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It had to be the desk clerk .
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At the time, he said, Jackson was working as a desk clerk at the hotel.
file
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The file clerk must have a great deal of trouble with it.
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Get whatever the file clerk will give you in the prenatal area and what you get, reduce.
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Usually the file clerk hands out material on the basis of time and topic.
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The file clerk hands out the scalding.
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Go prenatal as far as you can and see what the file clerk will hand forth.
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Do not try to erase anything as remote from basic-basic as birth unless the file clerk insists on presenting birth.
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You and his file clerk know.
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Birth will come up when it will come up and the file clerk knows his business.
law
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A 23-year-old woman law clerk has appeared in court charged with helping him escape and harbouring him.
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On either side are two courtrooms and adjoining chambers and law clerk offices.
office
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The driver had not seen anyone on the platform and neither had the booking office clerk .
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Crawford, as a post office clerk further down the cast, was paid just 350 for five weeks' work.
parish
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The parish clerk was asked to report the matter to the area surveyor.
store
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The store clerk is about to call the police.
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This facility is intended to help a few hundred families living in public housing by training them to be grocery store clerks .
town
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The fourth was town clerk , solicitor J. F. Cooper.
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The town clerk , SiL Mr Sheets.
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This was in accordance with the advice of senior officers, including town clerk John Cobley.
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I pretty much have to hire whatever walks through that door if the town clerk sends him up.
■ VERB
become
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Mostly teenagers, they were led to believe that if they worked hard they would become clerks or even dealers.
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On leaving school he became a clerk .
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He became a royal clerk , probably by July 1359, certainly by 1361.
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In 1273 he became a king's clerk .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a clerk at a convenience store
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Please return your keys to the clerk at the front desk.
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Right now I am working as a law clerk downtown.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the ValuJet counter, two clerks tried to pay attention to their immediate task: putting people on other ValuJet flights.
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Benefices, however, were not the only church assets which the king exploited for his clerks.
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He cooked for himself and for others, eventually branching out to jobs as a wine clerk and private chef.
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His signature was duly witnessed by two of the clerks in the firm.
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The clerk on that day was Miss Claire Robinson.
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There are groups of employees with specific job specialties, such as cashiers, stock clerks, and meat-cutters.
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We went to eat lunch in a restaurant frequented by poorly paid clerks and secretaries and, no doubt, messengers.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He clerked in a cigar shop.
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He was a great role model-he had even clerked for Oliver Wendell Holmes.