shop clerk
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1.9
- noun
- /ʃɑp klɜrk/
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dependiente
- They are teachers, students, shop clerks, and bank tellers, each one inspired by the idea that all it takes is a small loan to light lives.
Maybe just by being kind to a coffee shop clerk, or smiling at people.
- Maybe just by being kind to a coffee shop clerk, or smiling at people.
Examples
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Her mother would study her, a slight frown about the corners of her mouth as an anxious shop clerk offered suggestions.
Fiction book (1994) -
If the younger people were maybe artists and musicians or just shop clerks, that would be interesting.
Fiction book (1991) -
Maybe just by being kind to a coffee shop clerk, or smiling at people.
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Maybe just by being kind to a coffee shop clerk, or smiling at people.
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The other man was a down-at-the-heels, small-town shop clerk who had come to the city in search of an officer's commission.
Academic text (2011) -
Instead, I catch workmen and shop clerks looking at me as if I were a freak, or worse, a living admonishment.
Fiction book (1994) -
A refined woman—more like a mother of the bride than a shop clerk—rises to greet them.
Fiction book (1999) -
Kirsha begins a new affair with a young shop clerk enticed by hints of "generosity" and installs him as a privileged customer at his coffee shop.
Academic text (1990) -
I'm in my thirties and a little late thirties and some change, but the point I'm trying to make is, I didn't go to college and I have a fairly successful career as a vape shop clerk, so, you know, you've got time.
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The shop clerk helped me find the perfect gift for my friend's birthday.
Synonyms
259
1.0
A person who sells things in shops or to customers
110
1.1
A person who helps customers and handles sales at a shop
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
3
7.2
A person who serves customers at a counter, for example in a diner
2
3.2
A young woman who works in a shop selling things to customers
1
2.7
A young man who helps customers in a store
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1.2
A person who helps customers and sells things in a shop
1
5.3
A person who runs or works in a small shop
A man who works in a shop and helps customers
A person who serves customers from behind a counter in a diner or shop
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person whose job is to serve customers and sell goods in a shop or store' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'shop' (a place to buy goods) with 'clerk' (an employee who handles sales and customers). This noun+noun occupational compound is a common compositional pattern across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Shop clerk comes from joining shop (a place that sells things) and clerk, an older word for someone who kept records and counted money. So a shop clerk is the person in a shop who helps customers and 'sells' goods.