(n.) A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
(n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
(n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
(n.) An assistant in a shop or store.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(2) Cal Zastrow, also with the group, said that, although he has stood by Davis throughout the ordeal, he wouldn’t support the clerk’s policy to allow deputies to issue licenses without her authorization.
(3) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(4) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
(5) Others bucked, including a Dallas County clerk who bluntly remarked that Paxton’s office “does not trump the highest court in the land”.
(6) present the purposes and the methods of an epidemiological study on coronary risk factors in selected bank-clerks of Parma, in view to correlate the dietary factors, possible methabolic alterations, psychical behaviour, social and environmental position and coronary risk evaluated by electrocardiographic stress test.
(7) General health was good in both vocational groups and isometric strength for the welders was intermediate between that of office clerks (who had lower strength) and that of fishermen (who had higher strength, as disclosed in a previous investigation).
(8) Abbreviated and full versions of the discharge summary were generated with very little interactive time required of the physician or record clerk.
(9) Trainmen and railroad clerks were used as reference cohorts.The engineers had relatively high invalidity and mortality rates in comparison to the reference groups, especially with respect to cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors.
(10) You can feel it has strengthened the Taliban.” One man who saw what happened inside the US base is a former clerk at the local office of the ministry of information and culture named Qandi, who said he was detained and tortured for 45 days in 2012 before being transferred to the detention facility at Bagram airbase.
(11) Similarities and discrepancies in the way that evaluators viewed clerks were found.
(12) At the same time a comparable control group, i.e., 19 workers of the same chemical plant but without any direct occupational nickel exposure (clerks, service men, etc.
(13) In Kentucky , county clerks issue marriage licenses, and someone else must “solemnize” the marriage.
(14) A 26-year-old female clerk without previous heart disease ingested with suicidal intensions antihistaminic drugs--H1 blockers, astemizole (a total of 700 mg) and terfenadine (a total of 900-1200 mg).
(15) As we go along all these kinks will be ironed out.” Under Ghanaian law, farmers are only allowed to sell their beans to purchasing clerks who act as intermediaries between them and Cocobod.
(16) But because Piazza didn't issue a stay, Arkansas' 75 county clerks were left to decide for themselves whether to grant marriage licenses.
(17) In all study villages, the clerk in each health station maintained a regular count of the number of preschool children who had died within the preceding week.
(18) Their alcohol consumption, as obtained by interview was found to be higher among males than among females, among workers than among managers, executives, and clerks.
(19) During a second series of experiments, urine mutagenicity of 17 office clerks was also investigated.
(20) "We don't sell Japanese books," said a shop clerk, adding, "I don't know much about the reason, but perhaps it is because China-Japan relations are not good."
Seller
Definition:
(n.) One who sells.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
(2) We are going to see a sharp fall unless sellers hold the sector up by making aggressive offers.
(3) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
(4) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
(5) April 2009 Newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson dies during G20 protests in London after being struck by police.
(6) The former tea seller who started his political career with a far right Hindu revivalist organisation promised "good times ahead".
(7) Property experts said a lack of new homes coming on to the market ahead of the general election squeezed prices upwards as sellers awaited the outcome of the vote.
(8) The IPCC held back from independently investigating the death, even after discovering witnesses had come forward to say they had seen Tomlinson attacked by a police officer, and photographs had emerged showing the newspaper seller lying at the feet of riot police.
(9) For the first time this year, the asking prices posted on the Rightmove website for homes in London fell by 0.5% in early June, compared with the month before, in part due to a rapid increase in sellers rushing to cash in on rising prices.
(10) Figures for Amazon are harder to obtain, but UK sellers believe Chinese sellers are leading the field in many product lines on its site, too.
(11) Turkey would be a risk too far when there are safe havens such as the US starting to offer a return on safe investments The nervous state of markets these days means there is generally either a surplus of buyers or a surplus of sellers; only rarely have we seen periods of calm with roughly equal numbers.
(12) She travelled to the UK three times in 2009, the year her second album, Fearless, became the biggest seller in the US.
(13) "It's both a protest and a safety measure," said one tobacco seller.
(14) The simplicity and reliability of the fluorescent-antibody technique and the occasional serious complications of prophylactic anti-rabies measures make the diagnostic use of Seller's method at best undesirable and at worst dangerous.
(15) "We are not sellers; we are distributors," he said.
(16) Aortography demonstrated acute dissecting aneurysm of the ascending, arch and descending aorta (DeBakey type I) as well as aortic valve regurgitation (Seller's II degree).
(17) Not only does this prevent sellers from evaluating buyers in the same way, but if a seller's rating is affected by detrimental comments, they are not allowed to know which buyer left these and are therefore unable to contest them.
(18) "New-seller asking prices are good lead indicators of the current mood of the market, and those who have put their property up for sale in the last month are obviously aware that potential buyers are thinner on the ground at this time of year and need to be tempted to act by cheaper prices."
(19) Some people believe that it just works but the reality is that the online buyer-seller relationship can falter at any one of a number of hurdles.
(20) Because another top seller is the relaunched, reinvented Furby , which has returned, smarter and more likely to claim a year-long role at the forefront of your child's nightmares than ever.