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CLERKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clerking mean?
• CLERKING (noun)
The noun CLERKING has 1 sense:
1. the activity of recording business transactions
Familiarity information: CLERKING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activity of recording business transactions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
bookkeeping; clerking
Hypernyms ("clerking" is a kind of...):
accountancy; accounting (the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business)
Domain member category:
posting ((bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clerking"):
single-entry bookkeeping; single entry (a simple bookkeeping system; transactions are entered in only one account)
double-entry bookkeeping; double entry (bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another)
Derivation:
clerk (work as a clerk, as in the legal business)
Context examples
He's a tramp—laziest man I ever knew, though he's clerking, or trying to, in a socialist cooperative store for six dollars a week.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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