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{
"term": "clerk",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a person whose job is to serve customers in a shop",
"labels": "both North American English(both British English)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The clerk at the counter gave me too little change."
},
{
"text": "The clerk answered all our questions."
}
],
"topics": ["Jobs", "Shopping"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["bookstore", "grocery", "sales"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person whose job is dealing with people arriving at or leaving a hotel",
"labels": "(both North American English)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The hotel clerk greeted us warmly."
}
],
"topics": ["Jobs", "Holidays"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["bookstore", "grocery", "sales"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a person whose job is to keep the records or accounts and do other routine duties in an office, shop, etc.",
"labels": "(especially British English)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an office clerk"
},
{
"text": "He started work as a railway booking clerk."
},
{
"text": "an articled clerk working for a large law firm"
},
{
"text": "a bank clerk (= who deals with customers in a bank)"
}
],
"topics": ["Jobs", "Business"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["chief", "senior", "assistant"],
"preposition": ["clerk to"],
"phrases": ["the office of clerk", "the post of clerk"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "an official in charge of the records of a council, court, etc.",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the Clerk of the Court"
},
{
"text": "a former clerk to Chief Justice George P. Willison"
},
{
"text": "He held the post of Clerk to the Council."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["chief", "senior", "assistant"],
"preposition": ["clerk to"],
"phrases": ["the office of clerk", "the post of clerk"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/klɑːk/",
"audio": "cl/clerk/clerk__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/klɜːrk/",
"audio": "cl/clerk/clerk__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English cleric, clerc (in the sense ‘ordained minister, literate person’), from ecclesiastical Latin clericus ‘clergyman’, from Greek klērikos ‘belonging to the Christian clergy’, from klēros ‘lot, heritage’ (Acts 1:26); reinforced by Old French clerc, from the same source. Sense (1) dates from the early 16th cent."
}