clerk vs server

clerk

noun
  • An employee at a hotel who deals with guests. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

server

noun
  • A waitress or waiter. 

  • A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network. 

  • A tray for dishes. 

  • A computer dedicated to running such programs. 

  • The player who serves the ball. 

  • A spoon for serving food. 

  • A priest's attendant at the celebration of the Eucharist. 

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