clerical

from 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"

from 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.
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   2. Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing.
      "Clerical work." --E. Everett.
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   3. characteristic of the work performed by a clerk,
      secretary, or copyist, or suitable to be performed by a
      clerk. "Clerical staff."
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   {A clerical error}, an error made in copying or writing.
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from 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