Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The calling or work of a clerk.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of clerk.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the activity of recording business transactions
Examples
“Your experience was that you did not see such opinions while you were clerking, which is one data point pointing in that direction.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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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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