clerk

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing.
2. n. A person who keeps the records and performs the regular business of a court, legislative body, or municipal district.
3. n. Law A law clerk, as for a judge.
4. n. A person who works at a sales counter or service desk, as at a store or hotel.
5. n. A cleric.
6. n. Archaic A scholar.
7. v. To work or serve as a clerk: clerked in a store; clerks for a judge.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A clergyman; a priest; an ecclesiastic; a man in holy orders.
2. n. A learned man; a man of letters; a scholar; a writer or author; originally, a man who could read, an attainment at one time confined chiefly to ecclesiastics.
3. n. The layman who leads in reading the responses in the service of the Church of England. Also called parish clerk.
4. n. An officer of a court, legislature, municipal corporation, or other body, whose duty generally is to keep the records of the body to which he is attached, and perform the routine business: as, clerk of court; town clerk; clerk to a school-board, etc. See secretary.
5. n. One who is employed in an office, public or private, or in a shop or warehouse, to keep records or accounts; one who is employed by another as a writer or amanuensis.
6. n. In the United States, an assistant in business, whether or not a keeper of accounts; especially, a retail salesman.
7. n. In the United States, a popular name for the head of the meteorological department of the Signal Service.
8. To write; compose.
9. To serve as a clerk; act as accountant or salesman: frequently used in the phrase to clerk it.

Wiktionary

1. n. One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
2. n. A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs
3. n. archaic In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
4. v. To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
2. n. obsolete A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
3. n. engraving A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
4. n. One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant.
5. n. United States An assistant in a shop or store.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)
2. n. a salesperson in a store
3. v. work as a clerk, as in the legal business