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Definition of Desk clerk
1. Noun. A hotel receptionist.
Generic synonyms: Clerk
Specialized synonyms: Room Clerk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desk Clerk
Literary usage of Desk clerk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Girl and the Job by Helen Christene Hoerle, Florence B.. Saltzberg (1919)
"It is all a question of handling people and knowing human nature, and one good
place in the world to study it is a large metropolitan hotel. THE desk clerk ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"... that Hebdo accompanied the policeman and the prisoners to the police station,
where both were turned over to the desk clerk, one O'Neal; ..."
3. Report of the State Treasurer on the Financesby Treasury, Pennsylvania Treasury, Pennsylvania by Treasury, Pennsylvania Treasury, Pennsylvania (1912)
"JF Falkenstein, services, journal clerk, 213 00 Thos. Williams, services, desk
clerk 170 40 David D. Davies, services, desk clerk 210 00 ..."
4. Street-lore of Bath: A Record of Changes in the Highways and Byways of the City by Robert Edward Myhill Peach (1893)
"... to take down and remove the pulpit, reading-desk, clerk's desk, galleries,
pews, and all other fittings now erected and being in the choir, ..."
5. The Baker Street Bunch and the Missing Honeybees Mystery by Michael W. Paulson (2005)
"The desk clerk, a mousy man with greased back hair and a fuzzy moustache offered
... The desk clerk pointed to the stand of call boxes near the elevators, ..."
6. The Baker Street Bunch and the Missing Honeybees Mystery by Michael W. Paulson (2005)
"The desk clerk, a mousy man with greased back hair and a fuzzy moustache offered
... The desk clerk pointed to the stand of call boxes near the elevators, ..."
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