Clerk vs. Receptionist — What's the Difference?

A person employed in an office or bank to keep records, accounts, and undertake other routine administrative duties

A receptionist is an employee taking an office or administrative support position. The work is usually performed in a waiting area such as a lobby or front office desk of an organization or business.

A receptionist in a hotel

A person who greets and deals with clients and visitors to a surgery, office, etc.

A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.

An office worker employed chiefly to receive visitors and answer the telephone.

A clerk ( or ) is a white-collar worker who conducts general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment. The responsibilities of clerical workers commonly include record keeping, filing, staffing service counters, screening callers, and other administrative tasks.

An employee (such as a secretary) who works in reception (receiving visitors and/or calls) for a person or business, especially an office.

A member of the clergy.

(theology) A proponent of receptionism.

A literate or scholarly person.

A secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors

Work as a clerk

A person who works in an office performing such tasks as keeping records, attending to correspondence, or filing.

A person who keeps the records and performs the regular business of a court, legislative body, or municipal district.

(Law) A law clerk, as for a judge.

A person who works at a sales counter or service desk, as at a store or hotel.

A cleric.

(Archaic) A scholar.

To work or serve as a clerk

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

A law clerk.

An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.

(Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.

(archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).

(dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).

(obsolete) A scholar.

To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk

A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.

A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.

One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.

An assistant in a shop or store.

An employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)

A salesperson in a store

Work as a clerk, as in the legal business