room clerk

noun

1. a clerk at a hotel who assigns rooms to guests, keeps the guest register, sorts the incoming mail, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of room clerk¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

When 16-year-old Arabia Roberts put on the black judge’s robe and entered the courtroom, another high school student acting as a law room clerk shouted, “All rise.”

From Washington Post

We first meet Jewell as a supply room clerk rolling a mail cart through an office.

From Washington Times

The broad range of positions affected include commissioners, medical officers within the Department of Corrections, petroleum geologists, prosecutors, administrative assistants and a mail room clerk.

From Seattle Times

The governor’s office alerted Marvin that it had received an anonymous tip: Holden’s trusted messenger and mail room clerk was in the country illegally and had been for years, the caller said.

From The Guardian

When the emergency room clerk asked Beatrice for her stepbrother’s name, address, and phone number, Roy impulsively had stepped forward and blurted his own.

From Literature