clerical duties

collocation in English

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clerical
adjective
uk
/ˈkler.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈkler.ɪ.kəl/
relating to work done in ...
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duty
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈdʒuː.ti/us
/ˈduː.t̬i/
something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something that you feel is the right thing ...
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(Definition ofclericalanddutyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Many clerical duties were still handled by volunteers from 1963 until 1967, when an additional clerk was hired.
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The number of sorter tracers at present employed is 132, of whom 32 are performing clerical duties.
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The airman is at present employed on clerical duties in his present trade of station policeman pending remustering to a trade involving sedentary duties only.
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Their employment has released medical and nursing staff from clerical duties to spend more time directly caring for patients.
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The temporary employés referred to in the first part of the question are engaged upon purely clerical duties.
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The necessity to go outside to seek experts would not apply to those merely engaged in clerical duties.
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Those on clerical duties work 41¼ hours a week and those on industrial work 42½ hours.
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She is considered fit for service in her present medical category and for the clerical duties in which she is now engaged.
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It was said that too many were employed on clerical duties.
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Of this intake 40 were posted after recruit training to clerical duties.
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They range from direct patient care to technical support in radiography and phlebotomy to clerical duties and housekeeping duties on hospital wards.
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At the same time, we have an immense number of men doing clerical duties in such places as pay offices and other base depots.
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The fact that clerical duties are difficult, arduous, and important does not in itself call for their discharge by military officers.
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The men referred to (who were enlisted at special rates of pay) were enlisted as fit for clerical duties overseas.
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They are engaged almost entirely in clerical duties and in the indoor classes.
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For those with the vocation of administrative and clerical duties there is much office work but it need not be dull.
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His staff consists of 136 police officers of various ranks, and a certain number of temporary officers engaged for the most part in clerical duties.
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The work may involve a certain amount of routine clerical duties.
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The wage of the former class consists of the labourer's rate plus a regulated addition in respect of simple clerical duties.
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The writer of the article was employed on clerical duties during his training in camp.
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