clerk
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1.1
- noun
- /klɜrk/
- US
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dependiente
- After browsing the store, I asked the clerk where I could find the checkout counter.
- a store clerk
- a sales clerk
- a shop clerk
These are folks who are working as frontline cashiers, clerks, servers, all of them.
- These are folks who are working as frontline cashiers, clerks, servers, all of them.
- So I was like barista, grocery clerk, valet.
- They will shout at some unfortunate high school minimum wage clerk at a store.
- So the video store clerk guy, I feel like you, you won't stop talking about him.
- I would always ask for ketchup with my Mac and cheese at school and the lunch clerks would be like what?
- I would have been at that time working in a movie theater as a concessions clerk.
- But the minute you confess that you went to Best Buy to receive a manscaping consultation advice from the Best Buy clerk, they were like, that's pretty straight.
- I've had it with these Yak mouth grocery store clerks making a comment on every fucking thing on the conveyor belt.
- He goes in and he robs the convenience store clerk and takes his wallet and asks the guy what he wants to do with his life.
- He was cussing out one of the the clerks and Neiman Marcus because he was mad that there was too many Cologne options.
- You know, a clerk at Starbucks, a, you know, a flight attendant on United, rather than, you know, naming somebody specific.
- She rises, and walking a little awkwardly, a little carefully, she traverses the rank battery of man eyes and enters the store, the clerk following.
- Anyway, should we put a pair of clerks on it?
Examples
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The checkout clerk couldn't stop going on about it.
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Well, my sales clerk friend, I happen to write for a little publication.
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You want to wait until a clerk requests your service, right?
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And the front desk clerk was convinced that my boss had cancer.
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The clerk at the grocery store?
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For example, with lots of customers in the queue, perhaps the clerk will work faster.
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You're truly the friendliest clerk I ever met.
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These are folks who are working as frontline cashiers, clerks, servers, all of them.
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The clerk helped me find the perfect gift for my sister's birthday.
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She approached the clerk to ask for a refund on her purchase.
Synonyms
259
1.0
A person who sells things in shops or to customers
85
1.0
A person who takes payments in places like shops, banks, or restaurants
28
2.2
A person who sells things for a store or company
3
2.4
A person who works in a store and helps customers buy things
3
2.1
A woman who sells things in a shop to customers
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7.2
A person who serves customers at a counter, for example in a diner
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1.2
A person who helps customers and sells things in a shop
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1.9
A person who helps customers buy things in a store
A person who serves customers from behind a counter in a diner or shop
A man who works in a shop and helps customers
A person who sells newspapers and magazines at a small street stall
Compounds
14
2.1
A person who works at a hotel's front desk and helps guests with check-ins and questions
2
2.0
A person at a hotel's front desk who greets guests and handles check-ins and check-outs
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Etymology
Clerk comes from cleric, a 'church worker' who could 'read and write', so the word was used for people who kept accounts. In shops this became the person who helps customers and handles sales, which is why a clerk today can be a shop assistant.