Topic: TOURISM
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| Date: | 1000-1100 |
| Language: | Old French |
| Origin: | clerc 'man in a religious order, scholar, man who keeps records', from Late Latin clericus, from Late Greek klerikos, from Greek kleros 'what you receive in life'; because the Bible says that priests will receive things only from God |
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clerk1
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[countable]1 someone who keeps records or accounts in an office : a clerk in a commercial firm
a clerk in a commercial firm2BO American English someone whose job is to help people in a shop : the clerk in the shoe store
the clerk in the shoe store3 American EnglishBODLT someone whose job is to help people when they arrive at and leave a hotel :
4PGO an official in charge of the records of a court, town council etc
5RRC old use a priest in the Church of England
