The word "clerks" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is the plural form of the word "clerk," which means a person employed to handle routine tasks in an office. You can use the word "clerks" when referring to a group of individuals who work as clerks, such as in a sentence like "The clerks at the front desk were busy assisting customers." Example: The town hall hired new clerks to help with the increased workload during tax season.
The Guardian reported this week that magistrates' clerks had "instructions" from a "senior clerk" to advise the bench to disregard all sentencing guidelines and jail every riot defendant.
Because the immigrants lived on society's fringes, not many people knew of their existence, and those who did, such as workplace foremen or employment office clerks, pretended they did not exist.
The coming of the computer and then the PC transformed industries such as banking and insurance, as companies replaced white-collar clerks with software.
These will come only if politicians let the bank close branches and make clerks redundant.
America is filled with tales of people who held jobs as cash-register clerks at Wal-Mart, or on the diaper-making line at Procter & Gamble, who survived on their wages but have made fortunes through steady accumulation of company stock in retirement plans.The recent implosion of Enron, however, has focused attention on the risks to employees of such non-diversification.
Only four extant copies remain from an unknown original number that were written out by clerks and sent around Britain in 1215.
At a time when every American seems to be paying for his credit-card debts with home-equity loans, blacks have (for better or worse) joined the party, helped partly by the fact that many mortgage firms now rely more on colour-blind computers than on sniffy clerks to check up on applicants.This does not mean that the picture is entirely rosy.
Supreme Court clerks are some of America's most talented young lawyers.
CNN, October 5th The treason of the clerks"Unbelievable jobs numbers…these Chicago guys will do anything…can't debate so change numbers".
Ticket clerks routinely hoarded long-distance tickets to create an artificial scarcity and then sold them at a profit.
Most big ports around the world use scanners and electronic data-transfer to speed containers through the docks, but on the west coast clerks still copy numbers down by hand and type them back into computers.
