bank clerk

Origin of bank clerk

First recorded in 1820–30

But I had no desire to pursue the career of bank-clerk further.

A Boy's Voyage Round the World |The Son of Samuel Smiles
Half an hour afterwards, Dufour and a bank-clerk arrived at Mademoiselle de la Tour's.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 |Various
I hate this skulking about like a bank-clerk who has bolted with the till and is dodging the detectives.

Wild Margaret |Geraldine Fleming
Financially and otherwise the bank-clerk is one of our best securities.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 |Various

To be a bank-clerk and at the same time a poet—what nobler ambition!

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) |Elbert Hubbard

bank clerk

British an employee of a bank