Administrator vs. Clerk — What's the Difference?

A person responsible for carrying out the administration of a business or organization

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.

A person who dispenses or administers something

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

One who administers, especially one who works as a manager in a business, government agency, or school.

A receptionist in a hotel

(Law) One appointed to administer an estate.

A member of the clergy.

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager

A literate or scholarly person.

(legal) A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority

Work as a clerk

(computing) One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network

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

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

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

A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

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

Someone who administers a business

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

The party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor

A cleric.

Someone who manages a government agency or department

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

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