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What does clerical mean?

Definitions for clerical
ˈklɛr ɪ kəlcler·i·cal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. clericaladjective

    of or relating to clerks

    "clerical work"

  2. clericaladjective

    of or relating to the clergy

    "clerical collar"

  3. clericaladjective

    appropriate for or engaged in office work

    "clerical skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff"

GCIDE

  1. Clericaladjective

    characteristic of the work performed by a clerk, secretary, or copyist, or suitable to be performed by a clerk.

Wiktionary

  1. clericalnoun

    A member of the clergy.

  2. clericaladjective

    of or relating to clerks or their work

  3. clericaladjective

    of or relating to the clergy

  4. clericaladjective

    a task which has to be completed on paper, form, or performed offline

  5. Etymology: From clericalis, from clericus.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Clericaladjective

    of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy

  2. Clericaladjective

    of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing

  3. Etymology: [LL. clericalis. See Clerk.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of clerical in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of clerical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of clerical in a Sentence

  1. 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.

  2. Robert Pressley:

    To prove that I am alive is just insane and it scares me to death, that at a touch of a button or because of someone’s clerical error my whole life can be taken away from me and it is.

  3. Mark Hubbard:

    The letter is helpful because the government needs to be held accountable for its conduct. Conduct we believe was driven to find a crime where one does not exist. As has been acknowledged repeatedly, these were clerical errors and omissions by former Congressman Schock for which he has taken full responsibility.

  4. Callista Gingrich:

    It is my hope that the Holy See will emerge from this... summit with a renewed commitment to ending clerical sexual abuse.

  5. Michael Bivona:

    Certainly a great place for anyone that believes in magic and loves dealing with children aged one to ninety, disney doesn’t have a monopoly on seasonal and part-time employment. Football and baseball stadiums have a multitude of part-time jobs available such as ticket takers, ushers, driving players and staff to and from airports and clerical work. What better way to earn additional income than to be in an environment that one might love?

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