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Definition of Clerking
1. Noun. The activity of recording business transactions.
Generic synonyms: Accountancy, Accounting
Specialized synonyms: Single Entry, Single-entry Bookkeeping, Double Entry, Double-entry Bookkeeping
Examples of category: Posting
Derivative terms: Clerk
Definition of Clerking
1. Verb. (present participle of clerk) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clerking
1. clerk [v] - See also: clerk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clerking
Literary usage of Clerking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Autobiography by Samuel Sidney McClure (1914)
"... Side of a Peddler's Life— clerking in a Grocery Store—A Horse Trade—My Mother
Goes Peddling with Me—My Friendship with Albert Brady— Selling Microscopes ..."
2. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"... who made his acquaintance at a public sale where he was clerking, wished to
engage him. as a teacher in his neighborhood, but his parents dissuaded him ..."
3. What Shall I Do?: Fifty Profitable Occupations for Boys and Girls who are by John Sidney Stoddard, Lucy A. Yendes (1899)
"How about clerking?" The Little Teacher did not laugh, as some of the children
did, when she read Wayne Gallup's inquiry, for she saw the earnestness ..."
4. Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey by Cornelius Burnham Harvey (1900)
"clerking in and purchasing stock for his father's store, as well as attending to
the wants of the tavern guests. threw him in contact with all kinds and ..."
5. My Quarter Century of American Politics by Champ Clark (1920)
"... war heroes—Saw and heard piano first on Election Day—First law-book—clerking
in store when only fourteen years old—Debating societies—Mule-races—Love of ..."
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