shipping clerk

noun

1. a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.

shipping clerk

noun

1. a person employed by a company to arrange, receive, record, and send shipments of goods

Word History and Origins

Origin of shipping clerk¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

The 32-year-old shipping clerk had sustained several knife wounds to his neck.

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When Turner was promoted from assembler to shipping clerk, she said, managers neglected to give her the written manual that Latinos got to memorize inventory codes.

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His father — who had earlier changed his name from Kreponitsky — worked in sales and named Michael after a brother who died in Anzio, Italy, in World War II. His mother was a shipping clerk.

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His father worked for the railroad and as a shipping clerk.

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Trump called on states to do more to acquire masks, ventilators and testing supplies, saying that the federal government is not a “shipping clerk.”

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