clerical services

English translation: connected with office work (1)

03:51 Nov 4, 2012
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
English term or phrase: clerical services
Hello everyone,

XXX is a large prison that offers many possibilities. The staff members will meet with great challenges in their professional work. Their primary tasks are implementing the sentence and motivating the inmates to break off their pattern of criminal actions. Staff will be working within a broad and cross-sectional professional arena, containing correctional personnel and employees from collaborating service providers in areas like inter alia health, education, library and ***clerical services***

During the implementation of the sanction, the prison will facilitate that the offender himself is able to make an effort to stop committing criminal actions. Partners in administrative cooperation in the fields of health, education, library, labor exchange and ***clerical services*** will contribute to reaching this goal together with the correctional services. The organization of these various offers to inmates will contribute to putting them at the same level of service as the population at large

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/cleri...

1 connected with office work
2 connected with the clergy (= priests)

With which meaning is "clerical" used in this context?

Thank you.
Mikhail Korolev
Local time: 13:29
Selected answer:connected with office work (1)
Explanation:
1. Of or relating to clerks or office workers or their work.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/clerical

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/ss/definition_of_clerical_servic...

Definitely connected with office work.

The hint is in the last sentence of the source text you provided,
"The organization of these various offers to inmates will contribute to putting them at the same level of service as the population at large", which means that when the inmates are paroled or freed from prison, the possibility of ex-cons working as clergies or priests are much much smaller than those working as office workers. And these clerical skills will help them rehabilitate them as members of society after serving their sentences plus make a living.
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Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 19:29
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Thank you, Yasutomo.
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connected with office work (1)


Explanation:
1. Of or relating to clerks or office workers or their work.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/clerical

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/ss/definition_of_clerical_servic...

Definitely connected with office work.

The hint is in the last sentence of the source text you provided,
"The organization of these various offers to inmates will contribute to putting them at the same level of service as the population at large", which means that when the inmates are paroled or freed from prison, the possibility of ex-cons working as clergies or priests are much much smaller than those working as office workers. And these clerical skills will help them rehabilitate them as members of society after serving their sentences plus make a living.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 19:29
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
Grading comment
Thank you, Yasutomo.

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