Home › Words › O › overclerkoverclerkoverclerk means A clerk who also supervises one or more underclerks.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, overclerk ranks #33,733 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom over- + clerk.nounA clerk who also supervises one or more underclerks.e.g.“There were clerks innumerable, with underclerks beneath them and overclerks above.” — 2009, Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection, →ISBN, page 22:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).