clerk vs commission agent

clerk

noun
  • A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market. 

  • A law clerk. 

  • One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker. 

  • An employee at a hotel who deals with guests. 

  • A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs. 

verb
  • To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk 

  • The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer. 

commission agent

noun
  • A merchant earning a commission by selling goods belonging to others. 

  • An agent entrusted with the possession of goods to be sold in the agent's name. 

  • A person entrusted with a confidential task, often secretly to place a bet. 

How often have the words clerk and commission agent occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )