room clerk

American  

noun

1. a clerk at a hotel who assigns rooms to guests, keeps the guest register, sorts the incoming mail, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of room clerk

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

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room clerk

When 16-year-old Arabia Roberts put on the black judge’s robe and entered the courtroom, another high school student acting as a law room clerk shouted, “All rise.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2023

We first meet Jewell as a supply room clerk rolling a mail cart through an office.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2019

Peter, born in London, was sent first to Eton and then to the Sorbonne in Paris – hardly the usual background for a post room clerk.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2012

Said she to a room clerk: "I am Mrs. William H. Harkness and this is my baby panda."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was something about knowing who the important little people were, the forgotten ones who don’t wear suits, the mail- room clerk, the secretaries, the custodial staffs.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez