booking clerk:
(plural: ‘booking clerks‘)
a booking clerk at a booking counter at a railway station
a person who sells and/or books in advance tickets for passengers for their journeys, especially at a railway, bus station;
a person who sells or books tickets for audience/spectators at a theatre, cinema or entertainment show;
an officer at a court office, jail or Sheriff’s Office who registers a case and takes suspects’ finger prints and notes down other details;
a booking clerk at a police station
A booking clerk in the past had to write down the particulars of all the passengers that booked their tickets in advance, and had to make several copies of them to be sent to different departments for cross-checking, but the present day booking clerk’s job is to enter the passengers’ details only once into the computer and all the other departments get the information simultaneously.
Most often booking clerks, like the cashiers at banks, sit behind grilled partitions because they always deal with cash and, more often than not, with arrogant passengers who change their travel plans and expect the booking clerks to accommodate them on the best possible trains or buses.
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