CLERK Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

clerk

noun

ˈklərk

Definition of clerk

as in registrar

an official whose job is to keep records you'll need to get a copy of your birth certificate from the office of the town clerk

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as in salesman

a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store the clerk suggested a different brand

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as in priest

a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church the clerks in the rural parishes were for the most part sons of merchants

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Recent Examples of clerk The rental chain is far from dead, thanks to one of its original clerks. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2026 Local clerks and municipal employees are responsible for the day-to-day work of administering elections. — Stephanie Leiser, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026 The department's case centered on a claim that his sign had offended the city's water clerk. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Election clerks had to manually bring in the election results so that they could be uploaded. — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 12 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for clerk

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She is survived by her husband, the Democratic registrar of voters in Tolland; their daughters and husbands, Stacey and Steve Papa and Meryl and Bill Baldwin; and grandchildren Kyle, Taylor, Lindsey, Max and Sydney.

— Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2026
Eligible citizens can visit the registrar’s office during business hours before the new deadline to get their candidacy documents, the office said.

— Charlie Borla, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of registrar

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The Coens won Best Original Screenplay, and Frances McDormand took her first Oscar home for playing the unforgettable Marge Gunderson, a Minnesotan cop who gets entangled in a car salesman’s deeply inept foray into the criminal world.

— Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026
Dunleavy sounded less like an NBA executive trying to maximize a generational talent and more like a car salesman explaining why the engine light is supposed to stay on.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of salesman

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If the extension isn't granted, that doesn't mean the nearly 207,000 low-income, working-age Arkansans covered by Medicaid expansion would lose coverage altogether, according to department secretary Janet Mann.

— Nathan Ansell, Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2026
The carrier was expected to replace the Lincoln, which the acting navy secretary, Hung Cao, said last week would be returning home soon.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026

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In the book, a man known only as the Shepherd, a one-handed, somewhat insane preacher, starts turning the masses of King’s Landing against the Targaryens — and their dragons.

— James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
The Burkes were also very religious, with Dawud occasionally serving as a Pentecostal preacher.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of preacher

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Ukraine's former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for an election Tuesday despite the country's prolonged war with Russia, in what is seen as the largest challenge to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's power since the start of the conflict.

— CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Wars cannot be fought on ideology alone – a truism that perhaps led to the firebrand former defense minister’s departure, after months of clashes and refusing to deal with the army top brass, as Zelensky describes it.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

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Such details include McCartney’s bare feet and opposite stride and the other members’ attire (Lennon’s white supposedly represents a clergyman, Starr’s black a mourner, and Harrison’s denim a gravedigger).

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 July 2026
Robin, our hero, is the son of a country clergyman.

— John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026

Definition of clergyman

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