clerk

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing.
• noun A person who keeps the records and performs the regular business of a court, legislative body, or municipal district.
• noun Law A law clerk, as for a judge.
• noun A person who works at a sales counter or service desk, as at a store or hotel.
• noun A cleric.
• noun Archaic A scholar.
• intransitive verb To work or serve as a clerk.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To write; compose.
• To serve as a clerk; act as accountant or salesman: frequently used in the phrase to clerk it.
• noun A clergyman; a priest; an ecclesiastic; a man in holy orders.
• noun A learned man; a man of letters; a scholar; a writer or author; originally, a man who could read, an attainment at one time confined chiefly to ecclesiastics.
• noun The layman who leads in reading the responses in the service of the Church of England. Also called parish clerk.
• noun An officer of a court, legislature, municipal corporation, or other body, whose duty generally is to keep the records of the body to which he is attached, and perform the routine business: as, clerk of court; town clerk; clerk to a school-board, etc. See secretary.
• noun One who is employed in an office, public or private, or in a shop or warehouse, to keep records or accounts; one who is employed by another as a writer or amanuensis.
• noun In the United States, an assistant in business, whether or not a keeper of accounts; especially, a retail salesman.
• noun In the United States, a popular name for the head of the meteorological department of the Signal Service.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
• noun obsolete A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
• noun engraving A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
• noun One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant.
• noun United States An assistant in a shop or store.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
• noun A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs
• noun archaic In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
• verb To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)
• noun a salesperson in a store
• verb work as a clerk, as in the legal business