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booking clerk

noun

  1. a person who sells tickets, as for a train or plane.
  2. a person who arranges and lists passage for persons, baggage, and goods.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of booking clerk1

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

The booking-clerk at Banbury remembered only three gents booking by that particular train.

On reaching the station she asked the booking-clerk some questions, and returned to her aunt with a cheerful countenance.

So much vent did he give to his annoyance that the attention of the booking-clerk was specially attracted to him.

I once asked a booking-clerk for two sun spots of the Western coast, and he told me that the refreshment-room was further on.

Stitt led in a young man whom everybody recognized as the booking clerk from the station four miles away.

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