| n. | 1. | A clergyman or ecclesiastic. |
| 2. | A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters. | |
| 3. | A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. | |
| 4. | One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; | |
| 5. | An assistant in a shop or store. |
| Noun | 1. | clerk - an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts) |
| 2. | clerk - a salesperson in a store Synonyms: salesclerk, shop clerk | |
| Verb | 1. | clerk - work as a clerk, as in the legal business |
CLERK, commerce, contract. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. He differs from a factor in this, that the latter wholly supplies the place of his principal in respect to the property consigned to him. Pard. Dr. Com. n. 38, 1 Chit. Pract. 80; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1287.
CLERK, officer. A person employed in an office, public or private, for keeping records or accounts. His business is to write or register, in proper form, the transactions of the tribunal or body to which he belongs. Some clerks, however, have little or no writing to do in their offices, as, the clerk of the market, whose duties are confined chiefly to superintending the markets. In the English law, clerk also signifies a clergyman.
CLERK, eccl. law. Every individual, who is attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has submitted to the ceremony of the tonsure, is a clerk.
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