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. Maryam Rajavi:

    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.

  3. Douglas Jones:

    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.

  4. 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.

  5. Veronica Openibo:

    How could the clerical Church have kept silent, covering these atrocities ? The silence, the carrying of the secrets in the hearts of the perpetrators, the length of the abuses and the constant transfers of perpetrators are unimaginable.

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