Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The calling or work of a clerk.
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- verb Present participle of
clerk .
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- noun the activity of recording business transactions
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Examples
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Your experience was that you did not see such opinions while you were clerking, which is one data point pointing in that direction.
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God, I did like clerking which is the person who the secretaries talk down to.
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His father and mother had died while he was just a boy; relatives had given him a home until at eighteen he had started "clerking" in a law office, and with his wages and his legacy had carried himself through to the day when his name appeared among those called to the bar.
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Many occupations, such as clerking, stenographing, laundering, and certain kinds of unskilled factory work are almost entirely taken over by women, who labor throughout the same working-day as men, and usually at a lesser wage than men would receive for the same kind of work.
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New Salem, Illinois, where Lincoln was "clerking," was known the neighborhood around as a "fast" town, and the average young man made no very desperate resistance when tempted to join in the drinking and gambling bouts.
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Lincoln had periods while "clerking" in the New Salem grocery store during which there was nothing for him to do, and was therefore in circumstances that made laziness almost inevitable.
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Just one generation after the canals were dug, Irish were proportionally underrepresented in the lowest-paying occupations and overrepresented not only in police and fire departments but also in teaching, clerking, bookkeeping, and other white-collar jobs.
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A U.S. Department of Labor study in 1916 found that in the major legitimate occupations for women—department store clerking and light manufacturing—the average weekly wage was $6.67, which at the time represented a subsistence standard of living.
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She recently wrapped up a prestigious year-long stint clerking for Judge Leonie M. Brinkema at the federal court in Alexandria -- but, no, said she couldn't discuss any of the cases she worked on.
Cate Edwards lands first law firm job, joins the ranks of Washington lawyers
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Late in the discussion, a student asked the panel to compare clerking at the district-court (or trial-court) level and clerking at the appellate level.
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