clerking
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- noun
- /ˈklɜrkɪŋ/
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registro
- The process of clerking involves maintaining detailed logs of business activities to keep the office organized and efficient.
- a clerking job
Examples
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Does odd jobs after that, including clerking at Looney Liquors.
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In her role of clerking, she meticulously recorded every transaction and ensured accuracy in the records.
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Now, there is a position in our clerking office.
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There is no permanent clerking system or legal assistance available to the panel itself.
Academic text (1997) -
Clerking jobs are all the same wherever you go; only the jargon changes, never the job.
Fiction book (1992) -
You know, Hutch, if you put as much effort into clerking as you did into gaming, you could end up like me someday.
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Women who had to work outside the home were often able to secure jobs in stereotypically feminine employment, such as domestic service, clerking, secretarial work, and teaching (Cardinale 22).
Academic text (2015) -
During the quiet hours at my part-time job clerking at a textbook store on Warren Avenue, I'd probe psychopathology texts, searching for descriptions of my mother's illness.
Fiction book (1998) -
He enjoyed clerking at the administrative office, where he learned how to handle various financial documents.
Synonyms
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3.0
The work of writing down a business's money received and spent
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3.3
Keeping written or digital information so you can find it later
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8.6
Official writing that shows a legal fact like a property deed
Recording money and business events in a book for accounting and records
How Thorough
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word clerking comes from clerk, which once meant a 'church worker' who could read and write and so kept records, and the same root appears in clerical. So clerking is the work of keeping business records and doing office tasks.