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filing clerk

British  

noun

  1. an employee who maintains office files

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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To modern eyes that's hard to understand: in his crumpled suit, with his neat side parting, he looks like a filing clerk.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2021

Three months later, he got a job as a filing clerk at a community health nonprofit in Los Angeles, a position for which he was newly qualified.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2021

He came to Washington when the FBI recruited him out of high school as a filing clerk; the Army swept him to Germany from 1964 to 1967.

From Washington Post Apr. 15, 2016

Gus Bevona began his career at the local as a filing clerk.

From New York Times Sep. 24, 2010

He looked like a filing clerk, or a telephone operator, perhaps from a headquarters long ago dispersed.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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