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‘A staff can be clerical.’

[⟨det staff.n⟩ clerical.a]

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In Simple Wikipedia:

The court has magistrates (appointed judicial officers who make court orders, judgments and rulings in assigned cases), clerical and administrative staff and bailiffs as well as contracted workers such as guardian ad litems, appraisers, visitation supervisors and receivers who carry out the courts judgments.
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In Wikipedia:

The Works Manager’s Office, which included accommodation for his Assistant and other clerical staff, was situated near the main line.
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Sworn peace officers, Community service officers, communications / 9–1 – 1 dispatchers, revenue protection – guards, CAD / RMS administrator, and clerical staff comprise the departments civilian employees.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Canadian physicians employ 0.7 clerical / administrative staff, spend 34 % of their gross income for overhead, and trivial amounts of time on billing (there’s a single half page form for all patients, or a simple electronic system).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They also incorporate average costs for individual plans to consolidate fee information from various providers (one hour per plan at $ 60 / hour) for another $ 26 million in 2009 costs, and another $ 35 million that year to send all these disclosures out to participants (the DoL assumes it will take clerical staff an additional two minutes, and that 38 % of disclosures will be sent electronically).
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In Wikipedia:

Through the years, more officers were added to the department, as well as clerical staff.
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It was common for clerical staff to have to learn several new systems, one after the other, in just a few years, the pace of change was so rapid.
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In practice, some employers classify all clerical staff as working in a confidential capacity and production workers as working in a security capacity since they oversee their machines.
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In the British National Corpus:

The ministry had recruited about 170 extra clerical staff to run the BSPS system – not the 400-500 that some organisations had alleged.
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In Wikipedia:

Clerical staff include Ms. Lori Carnahan (Records Clerk), Ms. Janice Gatlin (Discipline Clerk), Ms. Lusendy Horne (FOCUS Secretary), Ms. Lorie Lawing (Principal’s Secretary), Ms. Jajala Jayne (Guidance Clerk), Ms. Nancy Pickett (Bookkeeper), Ms. Tonya Prince (Attendance Clerk) and Ms. Lisa Robertson (Receptionist).
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In Wikipedia:

He joined the clerical staff of Wexford County Council at a young age.
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In the British National Corpus:

And that if Cath did all of the clerical staff and then eventually Monique and Mary once they become in service long enough, oh they probably are already aren’t they?
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In Wikipedia:

The union’s collective bargaining agreement protected incompetent teachers; made it difficult to adopt an innovative curriculum; failed to reward good teaching; established onerous work rules; and generated large amounts of paperwork, which took clerical staff and aides out of the classroom.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

It has a large 20.1 – inch LCD screen resolution WSXGA + (1680? 1050), a Dual Core E2200 (2.20GHz), 2 GB of RAM (1? 2GB), 320 GB hard drive, an Intel graphics accelerator X4500MHD, WebCamera, DVD-Super Multi Drive, Port Felica and clerical staff 2007.
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In the British National Corpus:

Clerical staff in Oxford’s hospitals are to take strike action in support of their campaign for better pay.
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In Wikipedia:

The teaching staff is in excess of 90 and the large non – teaching staff includes campus personnel, finance officer, clerical staff, technicians, first – aider and lunchtime supervisors.
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In Wikipedia:

An active volunteer board of directors ran the organization, assisted by a small clerical staff.
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In the British National Corpus:

Well over a hundred of Oxfordshire’s lowest paid and angriest health workers attended a mass meeting to hear that almost all the region’s clerical staff had voted for a one day strike.
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In the British National Corpus:

Clerical staff who may be required to input data into the system will be expected to train in order to use the system.
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Queried on 2013-05-22.