- (also sales clerk both North American English, shop assistant, assistant (both British English))
a person whose job is to serve customers in a shop 职员；簿记员；文书 The clerk at the counter gave me too little change. 柜台的售货员给我少找了零钱。 The sales clerk answered all our questions. 那售货员回答了我们所有的问题。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bookstore
- grocery
- sales
- …
- (also desk clerk)(both North American English)
a person whose job is dealing with people arriving at or leaving a hotel 旅馆服务台接待员 The hotel clerk greeted us warmly. 酒店职员热情地迎接我们。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bookstore
- grocery
- sales
- …
a person whose job is to keep the records or accounts and do other routine duties in an office, shop, etc. 职员；簿记员；文书 an office clerk 办公室职员
Extra ExamplesTopics Jobsb2, Businessb2He started work as a railway booking clerk. 他从铁路售票员的工作干起。 an articled clerk working for a large law firm 在一家大律师事务所工作的见习律师 - (especially British English)
a bank clerk (= who deals with customers in a bank) 银行办事员
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chief
- senior
- assistant
- …
- clerk to
- the office of clerk
- the post of clerk
an official in charge of the records of a council, court, etc. （议会、法院等的）书记员 the Town Clerk 市政府书记员 the Clerk of the Court 法院书记员
Extra Examplesa former clerk to Chief Justice George P. Willison 首席法官乔治 •P. 威利森的前助理 He held the post of Clerk to the Council. 他担任委员会秘书职务。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chief
- senior
- assistant
- …
- clerk to
- the office of clerk
- the post of clerk
Word OriginOld English cleric, clerc (in the sense ‘ordained minister, literate person’), from ecclesiastical Latin clericus ‘clergyman’, from Greek klērikos ‘belonging to the Christian clergy’, from klēros ‘lot, heritage’ (Acts 1:26); reinforced by Old French clerc, from the same source. Sense (1) dates from the early 16th cent.