Clerk vs Clerklike - What's the difference?
clerk | clerklike |
One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks , however, understood him very well.
A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
(lb) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk ).
*1595 , (William Shakespeare), ,
*:God save the King! Will no man say, amen? / Am I both priest and clerk ? Well then, amen.
To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
As a noun clerk
is one who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc; an office worker.As a verb clerk
is to act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk.As an adjective clerklike is
resembling a clerk or some aspect of one; tidy, bureaucratic, etc.clerk
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(en verb)- The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.