What does Clerical mean?
Definitions for Clerical
ˈklɛr ɪ kəlcler·i·cal
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Clerical.
Princeton's WordNet
clericaladjective
of or relating to clerks
"clerical work"
clericaladjective
of or relating to the clergy
"clerical collar"
clericaladjective
appropriate for or engaged in office work
"clerical skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff"
GCIDE
Clericaladjective
characteristic of the work performed by a clerk, secretary, or copyist, or suitable to be performed by a clerk.
Wiktionary
clericalnoun
A member of the clergy.
clericaladjective
of or relating to clerks or their work
clericaladjective
of or relating to the clergy
clericaladjective
a task which has to be completed on paper, form, or performed offline
Etymology: From clericalis, from clericus.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Clericaladjective
Relating to the clergy; as, a clerical man; a man in orders. Unless we may more properly read clarichords.
Etymology: clericus, Lat.
In clericals the keys are lined, and in colleges they use to line the table-men. Francis Bacon, Nat. History, №. 158.
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clerical
Clerical refers to tasks, skills or jobs related to or typically performed in an office environment, often involving administrative work such as managing correspondence, record-keeping, filing, and organizing. This term can also pertain to the duties of a clerk or roles related to a religious clergy.
Webster Dictionary
Clericaladjective
of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy
Clericaladjective
of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing
Etymology: [LL. clericalis. See Clerk.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Clerical in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Clerical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of Clerical in a Sentence
In the United States, the mechanical voting machine doesn't make any clerical errors unless someone makes an error in configuring the machine, and then they are huge.
This is a clerical establishment that doesn't even care what Iranians think anymore because they're willing to not even have a competitive election, what we're seeing right now is a one-horse race.
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown:
The penalties in the federal system need to be much more conveyed to people to discourage this idea that this is a harmless, mostly clerical administrative violation of the federal system, it is blood money. You are getting the guns... to someone that will harm someone.
Any interaction and cooperation with the clerical regime will be in service of the repression and slaughter of the Iranian people, and its nuclear weapons ambitions, and fueling wars in the region.
It is my hope that the Holy See will emerge from this... summit with a renewed commitment to ending clerical sexual abuse.
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