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say it: klurk
clerk is a noun and verb meaning "an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)". It is pronounced /ˈklɝk/ — klurk. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)
a salesperson in a store
United Kingdom
work as a clerk, as in the legal business
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for clerk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.