Overclerk

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A clerk who also supervises one or more underclerks.

    "There were clerks innumerable, with underclerks beneath them and overclerks above."

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"There were clerks innumerable, with underclerks beneath them and overclerks above."

Etymology

From over- + clerk.

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