clerically
4.2
In an office way doing routine paperwork and other office tasks
- adverb
- /ˈklɛrɪkli/
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administrativamente
- She handled the registration process clerically, ensuring all paperwork was complete.
Examples
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Many tasks in the office are still performed clerically despite advances in technology.
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The reports were filed clerically before the new software was introduced.
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She works clerically at the law firm.
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Can you handle this clerically?
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She handled the registration process clerically, ensuring all paperwork was complete.
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Many tasks in the office are still performed clerically despite advances in technology.
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The reports were filed clerically before the new software was introduced.
Surface Forms
clerically positive
Morphology
Etymology
Clerically comes from the word cleric, which once meant a 'church worker' and later gave us clerk, the common word for an 'office worker'. Because church people could read and write and often did the paper tasks, clerically came to mean doing office or administrative work.
