Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to clerk
Participle: clerked
Gerund: clerking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | clerk |
| you | clerk |
| he;she;it | clerks |
| we | clerk |
| you | clerk |
| they | clerk |
Perfect
| I | have clerked |
| you | have clerked |
| he;she;it | has clerked |
| we | have clerked |
| you | have clerked |
| they | have clerked |
Past
| I | clerked |
| you | clerked |
| he;she;it | clerked |
| we | clerked |
| you | clerked |
| they | clerked |
Pluperfect
| I | had clerked |
| you | had clerked |
| he;she;it | had clerked |
| we | had clerked |
| you | had clerked |
| they | had clerked |
Future
| I | will clerk |
| you | will clerk |
| he;she;it | will clerk |
| we | will clerk |
| you | will clerk |
| they | will clerk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have clerked |
| you | will have clerked |
| he;she;it | will have clerked |
| we | will have clerked |
| you | will have clerked |
| they | will have clerked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | clerk |
| you | clerk |
| he;she;it | clerk |
| we | clerk |
| you | clerk |
| they | clerk |
Perfect
| I | have clerked |
| you | have clerked |
| he;she;it | have clerked |
| we | have clerked |
| you | have clerked |
| they | have clerked |
Imperfect
| I | clerked |
| you | clerked |
| he;she;it | clerked |
| we | clerked |
| you | clerked |
| they | clerked |
Pluperfect
| I | had clerked |
| you | had clerked |
| he;she;it | had clerked |
| we | had clerked |
| you | had clerked |
| they | had clerked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would clerk |
| you | would clerk |
| he;she;it | would clerk |
| we | would clerk |
| you | would clerk |
| they | would clerk |
Perfect
| I | would have clerked |
| you | would have clerked |
| he;she;it | would have clerked |
| we | would have clerked |
| you | would have clerked |
| they | would have clerked |
Imperative
| you | clerk |
| we | Let's clerk |
| you | clerk |
Verbs conjugated like 'clerk'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'clerk'
cleck,
alert,
bleck,
blenk,
cark,
cere,
chark,
check,
cheek,
chirk,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English clerc, from Old English clerc, from Late Latin clēricus (“priest, clergyman, cleric”, also generally “learned man, clerk”), from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós, “of the clergy”, adj. in church jargon), from κλῆρος (klêros, “lot, inheritance”, originally “shard used in casting lots”). Doublet of cleric.
2. Compare typologically Russian дьяк (dʹjak) (akin to дья́кон (dʹjákon)).
Sample Sentences
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The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
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He turned to a more attentive audience, and found it in the young fellow they called The Iceman, because he clerked in the swell jewelry store around the corner, and was always there with the finger advertisement for his boss’s diamondware. [1908 July 4, “Iceman’s Boss Was Easy. How Needles Put the Jeweler Next to a Winner and an Accomodating^([sic]) Bookie. [New York Press.]”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume LXV, number 186, page 13, column 6:]
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[…] for three years he had worked in the stinking labyrinth of the Mandalay bazaars, clerking for the rice merchants and sometimes stealing. [1934, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Burmese Days:]
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1956, Jean Stafford, "A Reading Problem" in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984, p. 332,
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In the winter, they lived in a town called Hoxie, Arkansas, where Evangelist Gerlash clerked in the Buttorf drugstore and preached and baptized on the side.
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The best preparation for the long case is to clerk patients on the wards and in outpatients within a strict 60 minutes. This would include deciding on a policy of management. [1987, R.A. Blackwood, T.M.E. Davis, A Guide to the MRCP Part II Examination, Blackwell Scientific Publications, →ISBN, page 51:]
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You should present a case you have clerked to a doctor (registrar or consultant) and discuss your choice of investigations and management. [2008, Nathalie Hurley, James Dawson, Stephan Sanders, Simon Eccles, Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 18:]
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The best way to get involved is to clerk new patients on the ward prior to the rounds and then present your clerkings to the person leading the round. [2011, David Randall, Introduction to Clinical Medicine: A Clerking Companion, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xi:]