clerking
present participle ofclerk
clerk
verb[I]
uk/klɑːk/us/klɝːk/toworkas a clerk:
Debbie has asummerjobclerking in anoffice.
Types of employment
- admin
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- administratively
- at the coalfaceidiom
- joblessness
- jobseeker
- labour-intensive
- lackey
- lapidary
- recertify
- redundancy
- redundant
- retcon
- roustabout
- white-collar
- who's whoidiom
- wilderness yearsidiom
- work experience
- work placement
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People who serve other people
Examplesofclerking
clerking
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
A simple bedside assessment should be used and the findings recorded within theclerkingpro forma for stroke patients.
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But there will also be vocational fields where this is not so true, such as with business apprentices learning accountancy and wageclerking.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
In my view, however, while there are several similarities, in regard to administration and in regard to at least some of theclerkingskills.
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They would wish to withdraw immediately and a great deal of unnecessaryclerkingwould be involved.
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Others are exercised under the direct supervision of the judiciary; for instance, courtclerkingand the personal support to judges.
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Isclerkingsuch a technical calling that it is impossible to train people as clerks?
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It is obviously necessary that thatclerkingshould be done properly.
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It sounds as though we are being very wordy and bureaucratic but the point about goodclerkingand good bureaucratic work is that they help to avoid problems later on.
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Unless the lowest paid authors are to benefit by hand-out, they inevitably will not benefit, as we said before, if only because of the extreme expense ofclerkingindividual payments.
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Order books, mechanisation,clerking, calculations and clerical work connected with getting this enormous operation launched?
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He started life as a young man byclerking.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Once the patient has been discharged from all other wards, this is when payment is expected by the hospitalclerkingsystem.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Special schools at the junior and senior levels teach hotel management, legalclerking, plastic arts, and music.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He supported himself with school teaching, farm labor andclerking.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After seven years of what he calledclerking, he made a bid to regain his family's control of the paper.
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- reflectively
- reflective material
- reflective quality
- reflective surface
- reflect-on
- reflect on sb/sth
- reflect-on-sb-sth
- reflect on someone/something
- reflector
- reflex
- reflex angle
- reflex-angle
- reflex arc
- reflex-arc
- reflexed
- reflexive
- reflexively
- reflexivity
- reflexology
- refloat
- reflux
- refocus
- reforest
- reforestation
- reforestation effort