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shipping clerk

shipping clerk

1 3.1
A person who checks and prepares goods to send or receive at a warehouse
  • noun
  • /ˈʃɪpɪŋ klɜrk/
translation icon : empleado de envío
  • After several years as a shipping clerk, he gained expertise in inventory management and logistics.
  • work as a shipping clerk
  • job as a shipping clerk

Examples

  • As a shipping clerk, she was responsible for managing the delivery schedules of various products.

  • Her husband was a shipping clerk 15 years ago, same as you.

    What a Way to Go! (1964)

  • I'm also holding a job as a shipping clerk.

    Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

  • I'd been working as a shipping clerk before.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • " I've always wanted to be a shipping clerk.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Louis and Claudia are talking to a shipping clerk.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • My little shipping clerk.

    The Postman (1997)

  • The new occupation might be as a shipping clerk for a truck company and would pay the individual compensation just above that available in the coal industry after the price declined, say, to $246.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Over time, he has worked as a paperboy, musician, elevator operator, shipping clerk, soldier, teletype operator, bartender, janitor, advertising agency owner, custom picture framer, and salesman, and for the last few years as a technical writer for Fortune 500 companies.

    Blog text (14)

  • The shipping clerk organized all the packages to ensure they were sent out on time.

Synonyms

router
vsshipping clerk
  • US
1 7.1

A person who plans and directs deliveries so packages reach the correct place

oversees both sending and receiving goods rather than only directing routes
warehouseman
vsshipping clerk
1 5.5

A person who works in a building where things are stored and moved

is focused on overseeing sending and receiving goods rather than doing general labor
warehouser
vsshipping clerk
5.6

A person who works in a large building and stores and moves goods

focuses on overseeing incoming and outgoing goods rather than manual storage work
tally clerk
vsshipping clerk
8.0

A person who counts and writes down the number or weight of goods

focuses on overseeing the whole sending and receiving process not only counting

Surface Forms

shipping clerk singular
shipping clerks plural

Morphology

shipping + clerk

The meaning 'an employee overseeing shipment and receipt of goods' is directly derivable from combining 'shipping' (the activity of moving goods) with 'clerk' (an employee who handles records). This noun–noun compound follows a productive, cross-linguistically common pattern (X clerk = employee who handles X-related tasks), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Shipping clerk comes from a simple workplace picture: a clerk, an office worker, who handles shipping, the sending and receiving of packages and goods. So, shipping clerk means 'an employee who checks, records and prepares goods as they come in or go out'.