Definition of "clerk" []

• A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing. (noun)
• A person who keeps the records and performs the regular business of a court, legislative body, or municipal district. (noun)
• Law A law clerk, as for a judge. (noun)
• A person who works at a sales counter or service desk, as at a store or hotel. (noun)
• A cleric. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Disturbed by these losses, whenever for the future he had a mind to purchase an estate for himself, he gave the original writings to his principal clerk, who made a correct transcript of them; this transcript was then handed to Sir Anthony, and five guineas (his fee) along with it, which was regularly _charged to him by the clerk_."
• "In England in medieval times the term clerk acquired in common parlance the significance of an educated man."
• ""It's like someone died," said Melissa Mattero, 37, the title clerk, who handles the paperwork on completed sales."