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Clerk, the vocational title, commonly refers to a white collar office worker who conducts general office or (in some instances) sales tasks. The responsibilities of clerical workers commonly include record keeping, filing, staffing service counters and other administrative tasks.1 In American English , this includes shop staff, but in British English , such people are known as shop assistants and are not considered to be clerks. HISTORY The word clerk, derived from the Latin ''clericus'' meaning ' Cleric ', i.e. Clergyman (Latin was the foremost language used at most early medieval courts, writing mainly entrusted to clergy as most laymen couldn't even read), can denote someone who works in an Office and whose duties include record-keeping or correspondence. In a medieval context, the word meant " Scholar " and still related to the word " Cleric ". Even today, the term Clerk Regular designates a type of regular clerics. The cognate terms in some languages, e.g. ''Klerk'' in Dutch, became restricted to a specific, fairly low rank in the Administrative hierarchy. UNITED STATES |
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