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CLERK

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clerk I. substantiv

1. slujbaş, funcţionar (de birou), copist; cancelarist; arhivar; socotitor, conţopist;

(com.) correspondence clerk corespondent; persoană care face sau ţine corespondenţa, actele, arhivar; copist;

chief clerk şeful cancelariei, şef de birou;

town clerk grefier municipal, ofiţer al stării civile; notar sau avocat care ţine actele la primărie sau actele unei bresle;

clerk of the works supraveghetor la binale;

(glumeţ) St. Nicholas’ clerks hoţi;

Clerk of the Weather (mai ales glumeţ) stăpânul vânturilor; cel care leagă şi dezleagă vânturile / ploile, solomonar; cel care aranjează toate, fluieră-vânt. (amer.) vânzător, funcţionar comercial; băiat de prăvălie; ucenic, învăţăcel, calfă.

2. (ist.) faţă bisericească / duhovnicească;

clerk in holy orders preot, om din cinul preoţesc sau dintr-un ordin religios.

3. persoană cu (ştiinţă de) carte, învăţăcel, mic cărturar, scriitoraş, scrib; intelectual (de rând).

4. (înv.) diac, logofeţel, conţopist, scriitor de cancelarie, copist; grefier; impiegat; secretar.

clerk II. verb intranzitiv

1. a lucra ca funcţionar sau vânzător;

2. a face conţopistică, a face muncă de conţopist.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

"I owe a month on it," he told the clerk in the store.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

“Is that from Dr. Jekyll, sir?” inquired the clerk.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

My boy, my boy, you are very much too good to be a clerk at Mawson’s!

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It would be shame to the good brothers of Beaulieu if I could not,” he answered, “seeing that I have been their clerk this ten years back.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The clerk was struck at the time by his excited and nervous manner.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Why, I have the fourth of a room and a passage, and the fourth of a clerk,” returned Traddles.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I know that clerks are sometimes curious as to their master’s affairs.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Solicitor's clerk!

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I felt angry at first, and then I didn't care, for a governess is as good as a clerk, and I've got sense, if I haven't style, which is more than some people have, judging from the remarks of the elegant beings who clattered away, smoking like bad chimneys.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The clergyman looked up at the speaker and stood mute; the clerk did the same; Mr. Rochester moved slightly, as if an earthquake had rolled under his feet: taking a firmer footing, and not turning his head or eyes, he said, Proceed.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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