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klɑːk/
n.
     - a person employed in an office or bank to keep records or accounts and to undertake other routine administrative duties.
 - an official in charge of the records of a local council or court. 
▸a senior official in Parliament.
 ▸a lay officer of a cathedral, church, or chapel.
 - 
(also desk clerk)
 N. Amer. a hotel receptionist. 
▸
(also sales clerk)
 a shop assistant.
 - 
(also clerk in holy orders)
 formal a member of the clergy.
 - archaic a literate or scholarly person.
 
v.
 N. Amer. work as a clerk.
Phrase
- clerk of the course
 an official who assists the judges in horse racing or motor racing.  - clerk of 
(the)
 works
 Brit. a person who oversees building work in progress. 
Derivative
- clerkess n. (chiefly Scottish).
  - clerkish adj.
  - clerkly adj.
  - clerkship n.
 
Etymology
OE cleric, clerc, from eccles. L. clericus (see cleric); reinforced by OFr. clerc, from the same source.