clerical

Word family

cler·i·cal /ˈklerɪkəl/ adjectiveadj

1 Brelating to office work, especially work such as keeping records or accounts 办公室工作的

a clerical error

笔误

clerical workers

办公室工作人员

2 RRCrelating to the clergy 神职人员的，牧师的，教士的

a clerical collar

牧师领

Examples from the Corpus

clerical• The work you'll do is mainly clerical.• Essential to his effort was the restoration of a vigorous and self-conscious clerical caste.• Nothing would ever be said, but the activity would be seen as part of a clerical decline.• Belliustin called upon the tsar to circumvent the ecclesiastical hierarchy and breathe life into the clerical estate.• Then down to the clerical job in City Hall for more learning.• Discrimination was highest for male, junior clerical jobs, management trainees and accountants, and lowest for female clerical jobs.• Nine council members serve part time in Huntington Beach, sharing a clerical staff of three.• clerical staff• Otherwise the key areas of debt counselling and clerical support can not continue adequately.• The clergy, however, preferred to discuss these matters in provincial clerical synods where they governed the procedures and priorities.

From Longman Business Dictionary

clericalcler·i·cal /ˈklerɪkəl/ adjectiveadjJOB

connected with office work, especially with keeping records or accounts and dealing with letters

He held a series of undemanding clerical jobs.

A spokesman blamed a clerical error for material going to the wrong address.

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