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
He said Mr Trump's defence team was likely to argue the former president was just a "really bad file clerk".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2023
I graduated when I was 16 and got a job as a file clerk.
From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2021
Before that, she’d been working as a file clerk at a nearby hospital, classifying the records of patients who had died.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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