(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."
Shopkeeper
Definition:
(n.) A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone had something to say about the events, from professors to shopkeepers.
(2) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(3) "There were 85 others in my police cell, mostly young people," said the young shopkeeper held in police station No 14.
(4) "Some people pulled me out from the rubble," said shopkeeper Sharifuddin Aurfan, who was wounded.
(5) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
(6) The scale of the destruction in Birmingham, Manchester and Salford shocked morning commuters and prompted shopkeepers fearful of a repeat performance to board up premises at lunchtime.
(7) Small shopkeepers have called on the government to include them in plans to introduce a mandatory 5p charge on plastic carrier bags next year.
(8) Photograph: tom phillips for the Guardian “It’s not been good for us,” complained Wu Yuhua, a 42-year-old shopkeeper from Jiangxi province who was preparing to leave the city until the G20 roadshow had moved on.
(9) The tourists ambling down Ledra Street in the hot midday sun are a welcome sight – and not just for crisis-hit Cyprus's shopkeepers.
(10) Hundreds of shopkeepers and restaurant owners from Calais held a protest in Paris on 7 March to complain that they have suffered heavy losses as a result of the presence of migrants in the port.
(11) James Agate (1877‑1947) started out as a Manchester cotton merchant, moved to London as a shopkeeper, then rose to prominence as the most brilliant theatre critic of his day.
(12) She rather loved being a shopkeeper, perhaps because it gave her a rest from writing.
(13) It’s been a long time since I saw him last.” The shopkeeper, 79, said no one had been in the barbershop since at least Tuesday and it had now closed.
(14) "A toxic mix of gold, greed and alcohol has resulted in a spate of brutal murders in the interior," the newspaper reported, cataloguing killings involving miners, jewellers and shopkeepers working at the gold mines.
(15) Shopkeepers have placed oil drums on the pavement to try to put some distance between themselves and any blast.
(16) And, as every shopkeeper will tell you, a huge sector of our economy depends on this.
(17) Fellow shopkeepers, she said, woke up yesterday to find their stock bobbing about in high waters.
(18) The UK is just as much a nation of shopkeepers as a vanguard of cutting-edge capitalism."
(19) Anna, a shopkeeper whose store was hit by a shell on Monday, said she did not believe the ceasefire would last.
(20) From the largest supermarkets to the most modest corner store or market stall, shopkeepers will be compelled to charge customers at least 5p for the convenience of taking their goods home in a disposable bag.