clerkとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /klɑːk/
• (General American) enPR: klerk, IPA^(key): /klɝk/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /klɐːk/, /klɜːk/
• Homophone: Clark (some accents)
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)k, -ɑː(ɹ)k

名詞

clerk (複数形 clerks)

1. One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
   • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “When I Was a Lad”, in H.M.S. Pinafore;  […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company,  […], OCLC 181408105, page 10:

     As office boy I made such a mark
     That they gave me the post of a junior clerk.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

   1. A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.
   2. A law clerk.
   3. An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.
2. (Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
3. (archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 4, scene 1]:

     God save the King! Will no man say, amen? / Am I both priest and clerk? Well then, amen.

4. (dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents かつ cherished by some of their number).
5. (obsolete) A scholar.
   • 13th century, Traditional carol,

     And all was for an appel, an appel that he toke/As clerkès finden written in their boke.

同意語

• register
• registrar
• scribe
• secretary

派生語

関連する語

• clergy
• clergyman
• cleric
• clerical

動詞

clerk (三人称単数 現在形 clerks, 現在分詞 clerking, 過去形および過去分詞形 clerked)

1. To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Burmese Days‎^[1]:

     […] for three years he had worked in the stinking labyrinth of the Mandalay bazaars, clerking for the rice merchants and sometimes stealing.