file clerk
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of file clerk
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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The Los Angeles Police Department wasn’t hiring, so he worked as a file clerk at Northrop Aircraft temporarily and eventually began opening training schools for martial arts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Amid World War II, Soskin landed work as a file clerk in a boilermaker’s union hall in Richmond.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
David Super, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, told the BBC that he believes Mr Trump's lawyers are likely to argue that the former president was just a "really bad file clerk".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2023
He brought her to the courthouse often and put her to work as his file clerk starting in elementary school.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2022
Mr. Gonzalez wondered how the file clerk managed to do his filing without disturbing the tender shoots.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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