bank clerk

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noun British.

teller (def. 2).

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Origin of bank clerk

First recorded in 1820–30

Words nearby bank clerk

bank bill, bankbook, bank box, bank card, bank check, bank clerk, bank deposit, bank deposit insurance, bank discount, bank draft, banker

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How to use bank clerk in a sentence

Judge Hinkle said “the Constitution requires the Clerk to issue such licenses.”
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One that they cannot cash in at the bank to pay for their flats.
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Bob Cratchit, the clerk who is the father of Tiny Tim and who meekly serves Scrooge, is paid fifteen shillings a week.
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As a way to be more available to needy souls outside the church, Williams took a clerk job at Walgreens pharmacy.
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A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.
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In sorting notes it is necessary to be able readily to distinguish between notes of this bank and notes of other reserve banks.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Thus far Boston banks have received more benefits from this bank than have the other banks in this district.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips

British Dictionary definitions for bank clerk

bank clerk

noun

British an employee of a bank

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