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2. Verb. (third-person singular of clerk) ¹

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Definition of Clerks

1. clerk [v] - See also: clerk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clerks

Literary usage of Clerks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, two assistant .secretaries of the treasury, chief clerk, eleven Treasury De- clerks of class four, ..."

2. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"They took an oath on entering office and were called the sworn clerks. Egerton fixed their numbers at eight to each Six clerks. This number was afterwards ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"clerks regular are distinguished from the purely monastic bodies, or monks, ... clerks regular as clerics must retain some appearance of clerical dress ..."

4. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1905)
"32 and the following leaves is written the below- printed account of the duties of the two clerks. The duties of the parish-clerks of St. Nicholas, Bristol, ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"On the 20th of March, 1688, another order was made respecting the admission of the Sworn clerks, and prohibiting any other person than the Six clerks and ..."

6. Report by Canada Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee to Inquire into the Present Condition of the Civil Service (1877)
"dence and the number of our corresponding clerks must be equal to the greats: it goes alone ... We find that our corresponding clerks are always engaged. ..."

7. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"And this is a trust of so much importance, that, in addition to the ordinary oath of office, clerks are obliged to give security to the public for the ..."

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