Definition of "clerking" [clerking]

• Present participle of clerk. (verb)

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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."
• "God, I did like clerking which is the person who the secretaries talk down to."
• "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."