postal clerk
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- noun
- /ˈpoʊstəl klɜrk/
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empleado de correos
- Got my kits and also mailed them on Monday, but had temporary amnesia and only paid .90 on each of the two kits, as weighed by the postal clerk at the window.
- postal clerk and mail carrier
- former postal clerk
Examples
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After submitting my forms, the postal clerk reminded me to double-check the postage on my envelopes.
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He worked as a postal clerk for 30 years until his retirement in the 1950s.
Blog text (28) -
He recalled, "In the summer of my junior year in high school, I was offered a job as a postal clerk for sixty dollars a month."
Blog text (22) -
The postal clerks will no longer have to key in postage data since they will be receiving the information electronically from the mailer.
Blog text (11) -
It will eliminate the time it takes for postal clerks to hand-enter postage statements.
Blog text (11) -
To my mother's house also came the doctor, the district nurse who bathed her, the physical therapist who exercised her muscles, the hairdresser who washed and set her sparse white hair, the elderly female postal clerk who came out of her way to bring the stamps she allowed my mother to order over the telephone, and the neighbors.
Fiction book (1991) -
The postal clerk in the small town takes time to help customers with their packages every day.
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When I visited the post office, the postal clerk was friendly and assisted me with my mail-related questions.
Synonyms
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A person who sorts and handles mail in an office or post office
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'postal' (relating to mail) modifies 'clerk' (an employee), yielding a person who handles mail or works at the post office. This adjective+noun pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Postal clerk comes from two simple words: postal (about 'mail') and clerk (a worker at a desk). Imagine a person behind a counter in a 'post office' stamping letters, weighing packages and helping customers. That's why postal clerk means someone who handles 'mail' and helps people.