clerk
clerk
noun
Clerk of the Closet
clerkess
noun
adjective
语源
noun
- a person employed in an office or bank to keep records, accounts, and undertake other routine administrative duties
职员，档案管理员，管账员，办事员
a bank clerk.
银行职员。
■an official in charge of the records of a local council or court
（地方政务会、法院的）档案管理员
a clerk to the magistrates.
地方法官的档案管理员。
■a senior official in Parliament
议会高级官员
■a lay officer of a cathedral, parish church, college chapel, etc
（大教堂、教区教堂、学院附属小教堂的）执事
a chapter clerk.
教会执事。 - (亦作 desk clerk)(N. Amer.)a receptionist in a hotel
(北美)宾馆接待员
■an assistant in a shop; a sales clerk
店员；售货员 - (亦作 clerk in holy orders)(formal)a member of the clergy
(正式)牧师，教士 - (archaic)a literate or scholarly person
(古)读书识字的人；学者
- [no obj.](N. Amer.)work as a clerk
(北美)当职员
eleven of those who left college this year are clerking in auction stores.
今年的大学毕业生中有11人在拍卖行当职员。
Clerk of the Closet
- (in the UK) the sovereign's principal chaplain
（英国）君主的首席牧师
- an official who assists the judges in horse racing or motor racing
（赛马、赛车的）裁判助理
- (Brit.)a person who oversees building work in progress
(英)（建筑工作的）现场监督员
clerkess
noun
- (chiefly Scottish)
(主苏格兰)
adjective
语源
- Old English cleric, clerc (in the sense 'ordained minister, literate person'), from ecclesiastical Latin clericus 'clergyman' (see cleric); reinforced by Old French clerc, from the same source. Sense 1 dates from the early 16th cent
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