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shipping clerk

American

noun

a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.

shipping clerk British

noun

a person employed by a company to arrange, receive, record, and send shipments of goods

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Etymology

Origin of shipping clerk

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

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But inevitably you are also a bookkeeper, a shipping clerk, a marketing specialist and a navigator of government regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

A shipping clerk sets out to improve his boss’s golf game.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2020

Let’s say a shipping clerk who expects to retire in the year 2030 deposits $10,000 in an account that matches the target inflation rate of 2018.

From Encyclopedia.com • Mar. 31, 2018

He found work as a shipping clerk in Chicago.

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2014

The black shipping clerk loaded the hand cart that I would be pushing through the streets of the garment center.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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