Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clerk whose business is to make entries in the proper book or books; in common usage, a clerk in a mercantile establishment who keeps a book of original entry in which all purchases and sales are recorded in the order of their occurrence.
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When his father went into business, he was taken as an entry-clerk; but he was such a trial that even parental solicitude could not tolerate him, and he was sent away.
Make or Break or, The Rich Man's Daughter Oliver Optic 1859
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