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
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".
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2023
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.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2022
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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