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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 transactionsplay

  Familiarity information: CLERKING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CLERKING (noun)


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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