desk clerk• At the time, he said, Jackson was working as a desk clerk at the hotel.• Al Perry, Hotel Congressdesk clerk.• There was no desk clerk in the notebook.• The same desk clerk was on duty when Kragan left the hotel two hours later, at nine in the evening.• It had to be the desk clerk.• On the third night, she went up ahead while he uncorked a bottle and shared it with the desk clerk.• The desk clerk was a worried, grey-haired man with steel-rimmed glasses and a medal.
clerk2 verb [intransitiveI] especially American EnglishAmE informal
(1000-1100)Old Frenchclerc“man in a religious order, scholar, man who keeps records”, from Late Latinclericus, from Late Greekklerikos, from Greekkleros“what you receive in life”; because the Bible says that priests will receive things only from God