{
    "term": "clerk",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person whose job is to serve customers in a shop",
            "labels": "both North American English(both British English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The clerk at the counter gave me too little change."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The clerk answered all our questions."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Jobs", "Shopping"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bookstore", "grocery", "sales"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person whose job is dealing with people arriving at or leaving a hotel",
            "labels": "(both North American English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The hotel clerk greeted us warmly."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Jobs", "Holidays"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bookstore", "grocery", "sales"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a person whose job is to keep the records or accounts and do other routine duties in an office, shop, etc.",
            "labels": "(especially British English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an office clerk"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He started work as a railway booking clerk."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an articled clerk working for a large law firm"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a bank clerk (= who deals with customers in a bank)"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Jobs", "Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["chief", "senior", "assistant"],
                "preposition": ["clerk to"],
                "phrases": ["the office of clerk", "the post of clerk"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "an official in charge of the records of a council, court, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Clerk of the Court"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a former clerk to Chief Justice George P. Willison"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He held the post of Clerk to the Council."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["chief", "senior", "assistant"],
                "preposition": ["clerk to"],
                "phrases": ["the office of clerk", "the post of clerk"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/klɑːk/",
                "audio": "cl/clerk/clerk__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/klɜːrk/",
                "audio": "cl/clerk/clerk__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English cleric, clerc (in the sense ‘ordained minister, literate person’), from ecclesiastical Latin clericus ‘clergyman’, from Greek klērikos ‘belonging to the Christian clergy’, from klēros ‘lot, heritage’ (Acts 1:26); reinforced by Old French clerc, from the same source. Sense (1) dates from the early 16th cent."
}