Definition of Clerkship

1. Noun. The job of clerk.

Generic synonyms: Berth, Billet, Office, Place, Position, Post, Situation, Spot
Derivative terms: Clerk, Clerk

Definition of Clerkship

1. n. State, quality, or business of a clerk.

Definition of Clerkship

1. Noun. The state or business of a clerk ¹

2. Noun. (legal) : A temporary job of assisting a judge in writing legal opinions, generally available to a beginning attorney for one to two years. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clerkship

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clerkship

clerked
clerkess
clerkesses
clerking
clerkish
clerkishly
clerkless
clerklier
clerkliest
clerklike
clerkliness
clerkling
clerklings
clerkly
clerks
clerkship (current term)
clerkships
clerodane
clerofascist
clerofascists
cleromancy
cleroteria
cleroterion
cleroterium
clerstories
clerstory
cleruch
cleruchs
cleruchy
clethra

Literary usage of Clerkship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts (1866)
"John Nalder, aged twenty-one, who served his clerkship to Mr. Frank Isaac Nalder, of Shepton Mallett. ..."

2. The Practice of the Courts of King's Bench, and Common Pleas, in Personal by William Tidd, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer (1828)
"Articles of clerkship, Indemnity. 64. (A.) c. 42. Bill of Exceptions. 863. (b.) c. 170. § 8. Actions on Bastardy Bonds. 7, 8. c. 60. Gaol Fea. 372. с. 60. ..."

3. The Law Chronicle: A Monthly Journal (1858)
"... aged 26, who served his clerkship to Mr. Edward Lake Hesp, of Huddersfield. RICHARD FRANCIS ROBERTS, of 11, Bloomfield- street ..."

4. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Published in the New Series of the Law by Edmund Story-Maskelyne (1872)
"During the term of service under articles of clerkship to an attorney, the clerk was appointed to succeed his father as steward of a manor. ..."

5. An Analytical Digest of All the Reported Cases Determined in the House of by Samuel Bealey Harrison, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Court of Bankruptcy (1835)
"Ал articled clerk, who has served part of his clerkship with an attorney who died before the clerkship was completed, is at liberty, aucr an interval affix ..."

6. The Articled Clerk's Hand-book: Containing a Course of Study for the by Richard Hallilay (1881)
"For, although by this Act articles of clerkship may be stamped after execution on payment of the penalties imposed thereby, which vary from 101. to ..."

7. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"WHILE the first volumes of his Dryden were passing through the press, the affair concerning the clerkship of the Court of Session, opened nine or ten months ..."

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