part-time clerk
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpart-timeandclerk
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part-time
adverb
adjective
uk/ˌpɑːtˈtaɪm/us/ˌpɑːrtˈtaɪm/
If you work part-time or do part-time work, you work for only some of the day or ...
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clerk
noun[C]
uk/klɑːk/us/klɝːk/
a person who works in an office, dealing with records or performing general ...
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(Definition ofpart-timeandclerkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thepart-timeclerkof the local authority said that when the negotiations were going on.
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Many of them have only apart-timeclerk, or even a part-time surveyor, or a part-time medical officer of health.
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They employ apart-timeclerk, a part-time finance officer and six other men full-time.
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Onepart-timeclerkhas agreed to be unpaid for his service, because he does so little and is called in only occasionally.
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The answer is no, because most parish councils have onepart-timeclerk, and that is often an honorary post.
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Apart-timeclerkof the justices might have a whole-time clerk in his employment who was entirely engaged on justices' work.
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But there cannot be a flat rate for stating what should be the compensation of apart-timeclerk.
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Does it mean that the whole-time service of a whole-time clerk, or will it be the whole-time service of apart-timeclerk?
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Apart-timeclerkwho is a solicitor is not willing to give up his practice and confine himself to a whole-time magistrates' clerk's work.
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There would be no danger of apart-timeclerk, who is busy with other things, omitting to re-apply, and the procedures would be as simple as possible.
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There is that difficulty if we rely upon part-time clerks.
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In each there was provision for compensation to part-time clerks.
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If he needs a couple of clerks or three part-time clerks to deal with the extra work, they can be recruited and paid for.
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When one had to travel by horse and there were no telephones it was sensible to have part-time clerks almost everywhere.
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Certainly those who were advising us thought nothing other than that it was going to apply to part-time clerks.
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The whole trend has been to appoint full-time clerks, although one knows of many cases where solicitors are very excellent part-time clerks and loyal servants.
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What will happen is that these part-time clerks will not be replaced.
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Twenty-five part-time clerks are still employed, as against 2 dismissed, and the one who has voluntarily forgone his part-time payment.
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So far, dismissals have been as follows: clerks, 1; part-time clerks, 2.
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