clerk vs waiter

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. 

waiter

noun
  • A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar. 

  • A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange. 

  • Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting. 

verb
  • To work as a waiter. 

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