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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. of or relating to clerks;
- Example: "clerical work"

2. of or relating to the clergy;
- Example: "clerical collar"

3. appropriate for or engaged in office work;
- Example: "clerical skills"
- Example: "a clerical job"
- Example: "the clerical staff"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Clerical \Cler"ic*al\, a. [LL. clericalis. See Clerk.] 1. Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. "A clerical education." --Burke. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing. "Clerical work." --E. Everett. [1913 Webster] 3. characteristic of the work performed by a clerk, secretary, or copyist, or suitable to be performed by a clerk. "Clerical staff." [PJC] A clerical error, an error made in copying or writing. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

clerical adj 1: of or relating to clerks; "clerical work" 2: of or relating to the clergy; "clerical collar" 3: appropriate for or engaged in office work; "clerical skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "clerical": abbatial, abbatical, accounting, apostolic, archiepiscopal, bookkeeping, canonical, capitular, capitulary, churchly, churchman, cleric, clerk, divine, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelistic, hieratic, minister, ministerial, monastic, office, papal, parson, pastoral, pontifical, preacher, prelatial, prelatic, priest-ridden, priestish, priestly, professional, rabbinic, reverend, sacerdotal, secretarial, stenographic, ultramontane