file clerk

noun

1. an office employee whose principal work is to file and retrieve papers, records, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of file clerk¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

Here, Barradas-Medel worked her way up from nanny to cleaning lady to file clerk in a law firm.

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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".

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He said Mr Trump's defence team was likely to argue the former president was just a "really bad file clerk".

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By her early 20s she was living in New York, working as a file clerk and proofreader while trying to break in as a writer.

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After graduating from high school in 1964, he worked as an FBI file clerk and served in the Army in Frankfurt, Germany, before settling in Washington in 1967 after his discharge.

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