desk clerk

noun

1. a hotel receptionist Also calledclerk

Example Sentences

Arturo, the desk clerk, told him that Souza had taken the day off and that Pepe and Vicente had been called up with the reserves.

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Bruce took the yellow envelope which the desk-clerk handed him and looked at it with a feeling of dread.

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The woman should make her way immediately to the desk-clerk, register, and then follow the page assigned to her, to her room.

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A gentleman calling upon a lady who is stopping at a hotel, gives his name to the desk clerk.

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The bored-looking desk clerk—a withered-looking oldster who was probably a retired Starman—gave Alan his room number.

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