town clerk
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3.1
- noun
- /taʊn klɜrk/
- Formal
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secretario municipal
- Otherwise, the town clerk and her staff go about their business in a quiet manner with few interruptions to their regular routines.
- the town clerk's office
Examples
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Your father is an anomaly in New England in the forties—a French Canadian who votes Republican and has even been elected town clerk several times on the Republican ticket.
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Go online, call the town clerk's office, walk into your local library and I guarantee you people will be filled with ideas.
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After witnessing it, that person signs the certificate and returns it to the city or town clerk.
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Attleboro has six polling locations; Seekonk has one because the town clerk wants it that way.
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Any petition pages with signatures that our office receives are turned over to town clerks in Connecticut, who verify the number of signatures from registered voters in their town for the particular petition, and then report that number to our office along with the petitions.
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Approximately 10 percent of the Dartmouth student body registered to vote at the drive, with a final count of 417 people, according to Hanover town clerk and Supervisor of the Checklist Elaine Hawthorne.
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I think it's safe to believe Maine town clerks and other voter registrars, ballot clerks, and election wardens take their responsibilities seriously and closely follow the rules, and our long record of clean elections in this state justifies this belief.
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You should contact the town clerk to obtain copies of public records.
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The town clerk announced the new regulations during the town meeting.
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As the town clerk, she is responsible for managing important documents like birth and death certificates.
Synonyms
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2.5
A person who keeps records and does office tasks
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5.3
An official who keeps records of births, deaths, and marriages
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3.8
A person who writes and saves important official information in files
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'town' (a local municipality) with 'clerk' (an employee who keeps records) to denote a clerk who works for the town. This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistically familiar compositional pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Town clerk The name town clerk comes from old times when the clerk was the only person who could read and write and who wrote down the town's decisions. Because this person looked after the town's papers, town clerk now means the official who 'keeps records and documents' for the town.