1
- a person employed in an office or bank to keep records, accounts, and undertake other routine administrative duties职员, 档案管理员, 管账员, 办事员：
a bank clerk.
银行职员。
1.1
- an official in charge of the records of a local council or court（地方政务会、法院的）档案管理员：
a clerk to the magistrates.
地方法官的档案管理员。
1.2
- a senior official in Parliament议会高级官员。
1.3
- a lay officer of a cathedral, parish church, college chapel, etc.（大教堂、教区教堂、学院附属小教堂的）执事：
a chapter clerk.
教会执事。
2
- （亦作desk clerk）N. Amer. a receptionist in a hotel〈北美〉宾馆接待员。
2.1
- an assistant in a shop; a sales clerk店员; 售货员。
3
- （亦作clerk in holy orders）formal a member of the clergy〈正式〉牧师, 教士。
4
- archaic a literate or scholarly person〈古〉读书识字的人; 学者。
no obj.
- N. Amer. work as a clerk〈北美〉当职员：
eleven of those who left college this year are clerking in auction stores.
今年的大学毕业生中有11人在拍卖行当职员。
短语
Clerk of the Closet
- (in the UK) the sovereign's principal chaplain（英国）君主的首席牧师。
clerk of the course
- an official who assists the judges in horse racing or motor racing（赛马、赛车的）裁判助理。
clerk of (the) works
- Brit. a person who oversees building work in progress〈英〉（建筑工作的）现场监督员。
派生词
clerkess
noun （chiefly Scottish〈主苏格兰〉）clerkish
adjective词源
Old English cleric, clerc （in the sense 'ordained minister, literate person'）, from ecclesiastical Latin clericus 'clergyman' （see CLERIC ）; reinforced by Old French clerc, from the same source. Sense 1 dates from the early 16th cent.